限制 (xiàn zhì)

Character breakdown

• 限 (xiàn) · 8 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

• 制 (zhì) · 8 strokes

  Depicts cutting down a tree (未) with a knife (刂). Based on the original meaning "break". The meaning later shifted to "control".