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TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 字
荷 character · TOCFL C1 (est.)
荷 ＝ 艸 ＋ 何
ㄏㄜˊ · hé/hè
noun — lotus (hé); verb — to carry, bear (hè)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

艸義grass, a plant
何聲hé — gives the sounda person 亻 shouldering a load — itself the old graph for carrying
Thé → hè — the carrying reading lifts the tone
A plant (艸) over 何 hé, the sound — and 何 is itself a person shouldering a load. As a plant it is the lotus, 荷花. The carrying sense climbs straight back out of 何: 負荷, to bear, read hè with the tone lifted.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

水邊一片葉子（艸），底下是扛東西的何（何）——一柄荷葉，撐起一整池。
A leaf at the water's edge (艸), and under it 何 shouldering its load — one lotus stem holding up the pond.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
hé
(本義)荷花、荷葉— lotus常用
hè
(引申)負荷、荷重— to carry, bear a load常用
→電荷— electric charge — what is borne
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
何héits sound half — a person carrying, the carrying sense lives here too蓮liánthe partner for the lotus — 荷 is the plant, 蓮 the seed-pod