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救济

jiù jì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 救濟

救济 (jiù jì) means "emergency relief; to help the needy with cash or goods". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 救济 means

1. emergency relief
2. to help the needy with cash or goods

The characters in 救济

• 救jiùto save; to assist; to rescue
• 济jìto cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help

Example sentences

• 十年来，他靠父亲的救济生存。
  Shí niánlái, tā kào fùqīn de jiùjì shēngcún.
  He's been living off his father's financial support for ten years now.
• Tom从八月六号他失业那天，开始领失业救济金。
  Tom has been on the dole since the 6th of August when he lost his job.
• 斯蒂芬·奥布莱恩，联合国负责人道主义事务副秘书长兼紧急救济协调员，声称在也门、索马里、南苏丹和尼日利亚，超过2000万人面临饥荒的威胁。
  Sīdìfēn · ào Bùlái'ēn, Liánhéguó fùzérén dào zhǔyì shìwù fùmìshūzhǎng jiān jǐnjí jiùjì xiétiáoyuán, shēngchēng zài Yěmén, Suǒmǎlǐ, Nán Sūdān hé Nírìlìyà, chāoguò 2000 wànrén miànlín jīhuāng de wēixié.
  Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

Words starting with 救济

• 救济粮jiù jì liángrelief grain; emergency provisions

Words containing 救济

• 行政救济xíng zhèng jiù jìadministrative remedy

Sounds the same

Read jiù jì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 旧迹old traces; signs from the past

Where 救济 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiù jì correctly.
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