给予
gěiyǔ · HSK 6
offer
🎁 give + surplus: offering more than enough
给 means give, 予 means bestow or grant. Together they form a formal word for offering or providing something to someone, like affording them a gift or feeding them resources.
给 — silk radical 纟 + 合 (combine)
Originally a phono-semantic compound: 纟 (silk) hinted at the meaning of joining threads tightly, while 合 ('combine, join') gave the sound. The early sense was 'supply' or 'provide,' which extended naturally to 'give.' In modern Mandarin it splits into gěi ('give') and jǐ ('supply').