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杭
杭 ＝ 木 ＋ 亢
ㄏㄤˊ · háng
noun — Hangzhou (杭州); an old word for crossing water by boat
字源 FORM — what the parts do
亢聲kàng — gives the sound
{g,k,h}ITkàng → háng — the {g,k,h} crossing; tone shifts too
Wood (木) plus the sound 亢 (kàng, slid to háng) — an old word for ferrying across water on wooden boats, the same act later written 航. That crossing-place sense settled onto a city: 杭州, Hangzhou, at the foot of West Lake.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
幾條木（木）船併著渡水，船到的那一岸，就成了杭州。
Wooden (木) boats ferry across; the shore they reach becomes Hangzhou — 杭.
字源
意 · Meanings
(本義)以船渡水（同航）— to ferry across by boat (variant of 航)
→杭州— Hangzhou — the city常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
航＝ 舟 ＋ hángthe same crossing word, re-written with 舟 (boat) for the verb亢kàngthe sound donor — same series as 抗、坑