汇 huì to gather
to gather; to collect; collection; to remit; to converge; to exchange
怎么记住“汇”: 氵 water + 匚 side box = to gather. Rain water drips through the roof, so grandma pulls out the big side box from under the sink to gather every drop.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
汇 = 氵 water + 匚 side box
- 氵 water sound
- 匚 side box meaning
Rain water drips through the roof, so grandma pulls out the big side box from under the sink to gather every drop.
How it came to be
The side box gives the meaning; the water is all the simplified form keeps of the old sound part.
用法
- Bound morpheme spanning three related senses: to converge, to remit money, and currency/vocabulary collections.
- 汇率 huìlǜ "exchange rate" and 外汇 wàihuì "foreign currency/forex" are the standard finance vocabulary; 汇款 huìkuǎn is the verb "to wire/remit money".
- 词汇 cíhuì "vocabulary" uses the "collection" sense: a gathered body of words, not the money sense.
- 汇报 huìbào is a fairly formal verb meaning "to report (to a superior)", used in work contexts: 向领导汇报工作 xiàng lǐngdǎo huìbào gōngzuò, "to report on work to one's boss".