覚
This character means ‘to remember, learn, feel,’ (in Japanese; pronounced KAKU and oboeru) and also ‘to wake up’ (in Japanese, sameru, and Chinese, jué). There is virtually no information about its history in my usual sources.
The lower figure,
見,
means ‘to see, observe, perceive,’ which gets us most of the way, semantically, to ‘remember, wake up, etc.’
The upper part has no clear independent meaning, but we can take it for the thinking cap of someone who is learning or for the tousled hair of one who has just woken up.
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