捐助
juān zhù · HSK 6
to donate
💰🤝 JUAN sounds like wand — wave your wand to ZHU (assist) others with donations
捐 (juān) means donate, 助 (zhù) means help/assist. Together they form donate-help: giving money or resources to assist someone. The wand-assist sound link ties the pronunciation to the act of making aid appear.
捐 — hand 扌 + 肙 (small worm, phonetic)
捐 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 suggests an action done by hand, while 肙 supplies the sound (juān). The original sense was 'to remove' or 'cast aside' by hand, which later extended to 'relinquish' and then 'donate' or 'contribute'.