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助 kanji
help, rescue, assist
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ジョ
Kun readings
たすけるたすかるすけるすけ
Words with 助
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —援助交際Popularpaid dating (esp. with an underage girl; oft. involving selling of sex); compensated dating
- —共助mutual aid; mutual help; cooperation
- —助教assistant professor
- —助攻supporting attack
- —助祭deacon (Catholic)
- —助産midwifery
- —助辞particle (in Japanese); auxiliary word (in Japanese; particles and auxiliary verbs); auxiliary character (in kanbun)
- —助勢encouragement; backing; reinforcements
- —助走approach run; run-up
- —助長promotion; encouragement; fostering; furtherance; unwanted help (usu. unintentionally harmful); unnecessary help; disservice
- —助命sparing a life; clemency; reconsideration of an employee's dismissal
- —天助divine aid
- —内助wife's help
- —佑助assistance
- —幇助assistance; backing; support; aiding and abetting (a crime); abetment
- —神助assistance from the gods
- —公助public assistance (i.e. assistance provided by a public body)
- —接助conjunctive particle
- —助業auxiliary actions (in Jodo: recitation, observation, worship, praise and offering)
- —助動inflecting dependent word