catch, capture
捕 centers on seizing or taking hold of something, especially a person or animal: catching or capturing.
捕 combines 扌 (hand) with 甫, which likely contributes the sound and may have originally suggested spreading or catching. The character expresses catching or capturing by hand.
The left side is a hand 扌, and the right side 甫 looks like a net or trap. Picture a hand using a net to catch something.
For ホ, imagine a hand catching a whole (ホ) fish in a net: whole -> ホ, and the hand captures it.
arrest; apprehension; capture
to catch; to capture; to arrest; to seize; to restrain
to be caught; to be arrested
prisoner (of war); POW; captive
capture; seizure
predation; eating prey; preying upon
whaling; whale hunting; whale fishing
to catch (a wild animal, fish, insect, baseball, etc.); to capture
catcher
capture; seizure; prehension; trapping
arrest; apprehension; capture
capture (esp. of a foreign vessel); seizure
capturing alive (an animal or person); something captured alive
capture (of a suspect, criminal, etc.); arrest
to be caught (of a wild animal, fish, baseball, etc.); to be captured
catching insects
to catch
to be caught
to seize; to grab; to collar
to arrest; to capture; to seize