■ radical

huī

to direct

How it’s built

Simplified form of 揮. Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.

扌

meaning

hand — 扌 is a component form of 手.

军

sound

army; military — The pronunciation of 揮 was similar to 軍 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

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