(zhù) - to help, to assist (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zhùTraditional: 助
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Translation
to help, to assist (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 力 (strength, effort) gives the meaning of lending power and 且 (qiě) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 力 (strength, semantic) + 且 (qiě, phonetic)
Stroke order
助
Examples
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Please help me.
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Thank you for your help.
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I need a bit of help.
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Please help the new colleague.
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He gave me a great deal of help.
助 (zhù) means to help and is bound, appearing chiefly in 帮助 (bāngzhù), the formal word for assistance.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 助.
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