救助
jiù zhù · HSK 6
to help sb in trouble
🛟 rescue 救 + assist 助 = aid for someone in crisis
救 holds 求 (to seek) next to an action radical — seeking to save. 助 pairs 且 with 力 (strength) — lending your strength. Together: reaching out with force to pull someone from trouble.
救 — 求 (seek/phonetic) + 攵 (strike/action)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The right side 攵 (a hand holding a stick) gives the action sense of intervening or stopping, while 求 supplies the sound 'jiu'. Originally meaning to halt or stop something bad, it extended to 'rescue, save, aid'.