zhěng

help

To give  a hand  also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

丞 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

chéng

  

assist

Definitions

 

zhěng

help, save, aid; lift, raise; to raise; to aid; to support; to save; to rescue

Most common words with 拯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拯救

to save

包拯

modern day metaphor for an honest politician

to raise

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*təŋʔ

tsyingX

zhěng

lift up


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.1986% of movies

1413th most common character in movies

2754th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+62EF


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