揽
lǎn · HSK 7
to embrace
🤗 揽 = 扌 hand + 览 to view: hands sweep up everything you've eyed
The hand radical 扌 plus 览 (to view/survey) gives the sense of arms gathering in all you survey — embracing, seizing, or monopolizing it. Sound lǎn rhymes with the 览 part, a built-in pronunciation clue.
揽 — hand radical 扌 + 览 (lǎn, to view)
A semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 supplies the meaning 'to grasp, gather in,' while 览 (lǎn) gives the sound. The simplified form reduces the traditional 攬, but the logic is the same — a hand pulling things together, extended to senses like 'embrace,' 'monopolize,' or 'take charge of.'