TSUMUGU · B2 (est.) · 字
匯
匯 ＝ 氵 ＋ 匚 ＋ 淮
ㄏㄨㄟˋ · huì
verb — to converge, gather, channel; to remit money
字源 FORM — what the parts do
氵義water — streams running together
匚義an open box that collects
淮聲huái — gives the sound
Fhuái → huì — the final narrows
Water (氵) gathered into a box (匚) — many streams collecting into one basin: 匯集、匯流. From channeling things to one place, to send money across, 匯款、匯率. The old graph carries two tellings of the sound: one reads the river name 淮 huái under the water, narrowed to huì; the other reads 會 huì (to gather, meet), a near match that also names the converging.
意 · Meanings
(本義)匯集、匯流— to converge, gather常用
→匯款、匯率— to remit; exchange rate
⇒匯報、總匯— to report in; a gathering of
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
淮huáithe sound part as its own word — 淮 is the Huai River, + 隹; 匯 collects it into the box 滙huìa variant spelling of the same word — the box drawn open versus closed