Kanji1 / 11
救 kanji
salvation, save, help, rescue, reclaim
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
キュウ
Kun readings
すくう
Words with 救
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —救命袋escape chute; survival kit; lifebuoy
- —救命索lifeline
- —救援機rescue plane; evacuation plane; humanitarian aid aircraft
- —救難機search and rescue aircraft; rescue plane
- —救急所first-aid station
- —救急薬first-aid medicine
- —お救人okyūto; dish of boiled egonori formed into gel strips, specialty of Fukuoka Prefecture; Campylaephora hypnaeoides (species of red algae); egonori
- —救護活動relief (aid) work
- —救出作戦rescue mission; evacuation operation
- —人命救助lifesaving
- —災害救助disaster relief
- —救荒作物hardy plants
- —救急病院emergency hospital
- —救援物資relief supplies
- —海難救助sea rescue; air-sea rescue; ASR
- —救援活動rescue operation
- —救援投手relief pitcher; reliever; fireman
- —債務救済debt relief
- —救急患者emergency patient; emergency case
- —救国済民saving a nation and providing relief to the people