fān, pān
to take turns
Original meaning:
animal's paw
Depicts an animal's claw (釆) with their paw shown. 釆 also represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "animal's paw", now written as 蹯. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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季旭昇《說文新證》p.89