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付 is a compound ideograph (会意字) combining the person radical 亻 (rén) and the hand radical 寸 (cùn). 寸 originally depicted a hand, and it often appears in characters connected to hand actions. In 付, the hand is shown giving payment to the person indicated by 亻. The composition captures the physical act of transferring an object from one individual to another. This concrete image of handing over gave rise to the modern senses of the character: primarily to pay money, but also to hand over a specified sum or to assign a task.
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我付了钱。
请付账单。
我们用手机支付。
费用由大家分摊。
他付了房租和水电费。
网上支付后可以申请发票。
本次消费已付清，谢谢惠顾。
逾期未付款项将产生额外利息。
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