营救
yíng jiù · HSK 7
to rescue
🚁🛟 营 (operate/manage) + 救 (save) = mount an operation to save someone
营 carries the sense of running an organized effort or camp; 救 is to save or help. Together 营救 is an organized rescue operation, stronger than 救 alone — think a coordinated mission to pull someone out of danger.
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'.