捐赠

to contribute (as a gift) / to donate / benefaction

Characters and words in 捐赠

to contribute / to donate / contribution / tax / to abandon

捐 = 扌 + 肙 : Zeus (ju) decides that someone should offer a donation (捐) to him after all, and he also decides that he can just do it himself. Because he's so cheap he just wants to donate a small worm (肙) and because he doesn't want to touch it, he brings it out in front of the anthill (an1) using a toy claw (扌).

捐

jua̅n = ju + an1

to relinquish; to abandon / to contribute; to donate / (bound form) tax; levy

赠

贈

zèng = z + (e)ng4

to give as a present / to repel / to bestow an honorary title after death (old)

赠 = 曾 + 贝 : In engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) Zorro (z) is giving a firefly (曾) to the crab (贝) as a present (赠), and the crab promptly eats the firefly.