仅
jǐn · HSK 3
merely
亻+ 又 (right hand) = a lone person with just one hand — only, merely
Radical 亻 (person) + phonetic/semantic 又 (a hand). The hand component suggests 'just one', narrowing the sense to 'only / merely / scantily'. Compare 仅仅 jǐnjǐn = merely.
仅 — 亻 person + 又 hand (right side 仅 simplified from 僅)
仅 is the simplified form of 僅. The traditional 僅 combines the person radical 亻 with 堇 (clay/scant), which carried the phonetic value and a sense of scarcity. Over time it came to mean 'only' or 'merely', and the simplified 仅 replaces 堇 with the simpler 又 (hand).