Sinograph Addenda · Signs

give-with

Name	give-with
Reads	yǔ
Means	to give; together with, and
Taught in	07 · With, by, from, at

Where it comes from

Four hands — two above, two below — pass a single object between them: giving and taking part in one picture. Grammar wore it down to the word between nouns: X 與 Y, “X and Y, X with Y.” Taught in the coverb chapter.

How to remember it

Hands at the four corners, one object held in the middle: giving, taking, sharing in one frame — give-with.

In the wild

天道無親，恒與善人。tiān dào wú qīn, héng yǔ shàn rén"heaven's way plays no favorites — yet it always sides with the good" — no cosmic nepotism, only a long-run tilt toward decency.

Laozi 79, the closing line — this edition writes 恒 "always" where later ones write 常. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR5c0057:079:1a · license: attribution.