予以
yūyǐ · HSK 7
give
🎁 予以 = 予 (give) + 以 (by means of); a formal way to say grant or bestow
Used in officialese: 予以支持 (give support), 予以批准 (grant approval). The 以 adds a by-means-of sense, marking 予以 as bureaucratic rather than everyday giving.
以 — phonetic 㠯 (plow/tool) + 人 (person)
Originally a pictograph of a hand-held plow or tool (㠯), later combined with 人 (person) to suggest 'using' something. The core meaning 'to use' extended metaphorically to 'by means of', 'with', and 'because of'. In modern Chinese it functions mainly as a grammatical particle.