救

音読おんよみ: キュウ

訓読くんよみ: すく

画数かくすう: 11 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 攵(のぶん)

Meaning

Rescue / Save / Help / Relief

  • 救急きゅうきゅう — emergency aid
  • 救助きゅうじょ — rescue / relief
  • 救援きゅうえん — support / assistance
  • 救命きゅうめい — life-saving
  • 救出きゅうしゅつ — extraction / rescue
  • 救済きゅうさい — relief / salvation
  • 救護きゅうご — first aid; protection

救 combines 求 (to seek) with 攵 (action), expressing an act taken to help or deliver relief—used in emergency and humanitarian contexts.

かれいのちすくわれた。
His life was saved.

救急車きゅうきゅうしゃんでください。
Please call an ambulance.

助
Creates
救助きゅうじょ — rescue / relief
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