救济
jiù jì · HSK 7
to help the needy with cash or goods
🆘🎁 救 rescue + 济 aid = relief sent to rescue people in crisis
救 means rescue or save, and 济 means to aid or relieve. Stacked together they name the cash and goods sent to rescue the needy: emergency relief.
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'.