予
yǔ
#923 most
frequent character
(literary) to give
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
予 first meant lifting something up and offering it, which grew to give. It came from 呂 lǚ, which gave the sound, plus a small mark 亅 added to tell it apart. Read yú, the sound was borrowed for the pronoun I or me.
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