攒
cuán , zǎn · HSK 7
to collect
💰 扌(hand) + 赞 zàn = your hand keeps raking in what it approves of, until it piles up
The zǎn reading is the common one, as in 攒钱 zǎn qián, to save up money. The hand radical 扌 does the gathering; 赞 (approve/praise) lends the sound. So: collect, hoard, accumulate.
攒 — hand radical 扌 + 赞 zàn (phonetic)
攒 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 carries the meaning of gathering or holding together with the hands, while 赞 (zàn) supplies the sound. Over time it came to mean 'to gather, accumulate, or save up,' as in saving money (zǎn) or clustering together (cuán).