拨款
bō kuǎn · HSK 7
to allocate funds
💰 拨 push/move + 款 money = push funds where they need to go
拨 carries the hand radical 扌 — it means to push or shift something with your hands. 款 means a sum of money. Together: hands-on pushing money to its destination.
拨 — hand radical 扌 + 发 (fā/fà)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 signals a meaning related to manual action — pushing, stirring, or moving aside. The right side 发 originally provided the sound. Together 拨 means to push aside, pluck, or dial with the hand.