Formal/literary; often in 给予 (to give), 赋予 (to endow).
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The two senses sit on two readings. To give is yǔ, and it is the only reading in modern use, so a present day sentence containing 予 is about giving. The first person sense, I or me, is the classical reading yú and appears only in old texts.
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予yǔ
to give; to bestow
Drawn as a hand passing something downward to another hand: the upper hook hands over, the lower loop receives. Indexed under Kangxi #6 亅 (jué) by tradition, taken from the central hook stroke. From the giving-hand picture come both senses: 'to bestow' and the literary 'I, me' (the giver speaking).
Filed under radical 亅 (jué, #6) by convention. 亅 is not a separate component in 予, so no strokes are highlighted.
