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助

zhù

HSK 2 Character

What 助 means

1. to help
2. to assist

Example sentences

• 请帮助我。
  Please help me.
• 助人者自助。
  Zhù rén zhě zìzhù.
  To help others is to help yourself.
• 她需要帮助。
  She needs help.
• 助手拿了钱。
  The assistant took the money.
• 她向他求助。
  She asked him for help.
• 她向我求助。
  She asked me for help.

Words starting with 助

• 助理zhù lǐassistant
• 助手zhù shǒuassistant; helper
• 助学zhù xuéto support a student's education (often financially)
• 助教zhù jiàoteaching assistant
• 助词zhù cí(linguistics) auxiliary word; function word; particle
• 助长zhù zhǎngto encourage; to foster; to foment
• 助学金zhù xué jīnstudent grant; education grant; scholarship
• 助兴zhù xìngto add to the fun; to liven things up
• 助威zhù wēito cheer for; to encourage; to boost the morale of
• 助阵zhù zhènto cheer; to root for
• 助人zhù rénto help others
• 助攻zhù gōng(military) to mount a secondary attack; (fig.) to assist in tackling a problem…
• 助人为乐zhù rén wéi lèpleasure from helping others (idiom)
• 助动词zhù dòng cíauxiliary verb; modal verb
• 助纣为虐zhù Zhòu wéi nüèlit. helping tyrant Zhou 商纣王; fig. to take the side of the evildoer…
• 助力zhù lìto help; to aid; assistance
• 助产zhù chǎnto help a mother give birth
• 助选zhù xuǎnto assist in a candidate's election campaign (Tw)
• 助力车zhù lì chēbicycle or tricycle equipped with a small motor (electric or fuel)…
• 助动车zhù dòng chēlow-powered motorized scooter or bike
• 助战zhù zhànto support (in battle)
• 助产士zhù chǎn shìmidwife
• 助记方法zhù jì fāng fǎmnemonic method
• 助手席zhù shǒu xífront passenger seat (in a car)

Words containing 助

• 帮助bāng zhùassistance; aid; to help; to assist
• 协助xié zhùto provide assistance; to aid
• 资助zī zhùto subsidize; to provide financial aid; subsidy
• 借助jiè zhùto draw support from; with the help of
• 辅助fǔ zhùto assist; to aid; supplementary; auxiliary
• 赞助zàn zhùto support; to assist; to sponsor
• 拔苗助长bá miáo zhù zhǎngto spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
• 求助qiú zhùto request help; to appeal (for help)
• 援助yuán zhùto help; to support; to aid
• 有助于yǒu zhù yúto contribute to; to promote
• 救助jiù zhùto help sb in trouble; aid; assistance
• 自助zì zhùself-service
• 无助wú zhùhelpless; helplessness; feeling useless
• 补助bǔ zhùto subsidize; subsidy; allowance
• 捐助juān zhùto donate; to offer (aid); contribution
• 互助hù zhùto help each other
• 自助餐zì zhù cānbuffet; self-service meal
• 相助xiāng zhùto help one another; to come to sb's help
• 赞助商zàn zhù shāngsponsor
• 有助yǒu zhùhelpful; beneficial; to help
• 推波助澜tuī bō zhù lánto push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum…
• 乐于助人lè yú zhù rén(idiom) willing to help others
• 扶助fú zhùto assist
• 爱莫能助ài mò néng zhùunable to help however much one would like to (idiom)…

Characters built on 且

These share the phonetic component 且 (qiě), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 组zǔto form; to organize; group
• 租zūto hire; to rent; to charter
• 阻zǔto hinder; to block; to obstruct
• 祖zǔancestor; forefather; grandparents
• 粗cū(of sth long) wide; thick; (of sth granular) coarse; (of a voice) gruff
• 诅zǔcurse; swear (oath)
• 沮jǔto destroy; to stop
• 咀jǔto chew; to masticate

Characters that look like 助

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 励lìto encourage; to urge
• 丽lìbeautiful
• 劫jiéto rob; to plunder; to seize by force
• 驰chíto run fast; to speed; to gallop
• 劾héto impeach
• 绌chùcrimson silk; deficiency; to stitch

Sounds the same

Read zhù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 住to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…
• 注(bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject…
• 祝to pray for; to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc)…
• 著to make known; to show; to prove
• 筑five-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 驻to halt; to stay; to be stationed (of troops, diplomats etc)
• 柱pillar
• 铸to cast or found metals
• 贮to store; to save; stockpile
• 蛀termite; to bore (of insects)
• 箸(literary) chopsticks
• 伫to stand for a long time; to wait; to look forward to