拟
nǐ · HSK 7
plan
📝 nǐ sounds like knee; you bend a knee the moment you intend to pop the big plan
Traditional 擬 is hand (扌) plus 疑 doubt: a hand drafting something still under doubt, hence to plan or intend. The simplified 拟 keeps the hand 扌 beside 以. Tone is third (nǐ), the dipping tone like a knee bending down.
拟 — hand radical 扌 + 疑 yí (doubt/phonetic)
拟 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 suggests an action, while 疑 supplies the sound. It originally meant to plan or draft by hand, and extended to 'imitate, compare, draw up.' 拟 is the simplified form of 擬.