Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
定 has 宀 building as the picture part, suggesting a fixed structure and the first meaning 'stable and safe'. 𤴓 zhèng, a variant of 正, supplies the sound, though the link is not clear today. The meaning grew to 'to fix, fixed' and 'must'.
Drawn as: building
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