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救

救

Translingual

Han character

救 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈水人大 (IEOK), four-corner 48140, composition ⿰求攵)

  1. save, rescue, relieve
  2. help, aid

References

  • KangXi: page 471, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13221
  • Dae Jaweon: page 823, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1460, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6551

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 救

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (求) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
救 *kus
求 *ɡu
球 *ɡu
逑 *ɡu
賕 *ɡu
蛷 *ɡu
莍 *ɡu
殏 *ɡu
梂 *ɡu
俅 *ɡu
脙 *ɡu, *qʰu
絿 *ɡu
銶 *ɡu
毬 *ɡu
捄 *ɡu, *ko
觩 *ɡu

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 救
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居祐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kuwH/
Li
Rong		 /kiuH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 救
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.k(r)u-s/
English help, save

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 救
Reading # 1/1
No. 10559
Phonetic
component		 求
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 救
Old
Chinese		 /*kus/

Verb

救

  1. to save; to rescue; to help

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

救

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

救 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

救 (cứu)

  1. Chữ Nôm character for ʽcứuʼ. help.

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