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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
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爰 手 ⿰⺘爰
Mandarin
yuan2, huan4, yuan4, yung4
English
Definitions
to aid; to assist; to help; cite; lead
Mnemonic
Lead 爰 with hand radical 手 added redundantly