The old form draws a hand leading an elephant — work itself,
in one picture — and the language borrowed it for its plainest
verb: do, make, act as. Rank eight of the corpus. Read wéi as
the verb; read wèi when it means “for the sake of.” Taught in
the doing-and-being chapter.
How to remember it
A claw at the top, four small feet at the bottom: what is left
of the hand leading the elephant — the heaviest doing the
script ever drew.