汇款
huì kuǎn · HSK 5
to remit money
💸 汇 = converge/remit + 款 = funds; literally converge-funds
汇 means to gather or converge (also used for rivers merging), and 款 means funds or a sum of money. Together: gather funds and send them — a remittance. Common at banks: 汇款单 is a remittance slip.
汇 — water radical 氵 + 㠯 (older form)
汇 is the simplified form of 匯, originally depicting water (氵) flowing into a container (匚), meaning a place where streams converge. From this came the extended senses of gathering, collecting, and remitting funds. Modern uses like 汇款 (remit money) and 词汇 (vocabulary) all stem from this idea of things flowing together.