Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
aid, help, assist
Kun:
たす.ける
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1879 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 扶養 【フヨウ】 support (e.g. of one's dependents), maintenance
  • 扶助 【フジョ】 aid, help, assistance, support
  • 家扶 【カフ】 steward

Kun reading compounds

  • 助ける 【たすける】 to save, to rescue, to spare, to help, to assist, to support (financially), to contribute (to), to provide aid, to facilitate, to stimulate, to promote, to contribute to

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • ayuda
  • socorro
  • asistencia

Portuguese

  • ajudar
  • ajuda
  • auxiliar

French

  • aider
  • assister
  • prêter main forte
1748 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1748 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1850 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1796 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1336 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
383 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1721 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1839 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1466 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
866 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
291 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
184 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
220 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
847 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11840 Morohashi
247 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2089 New Nelson (John Haig)
839 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
902 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1130 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1363 2001 Kanji
3c4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
5503.0 Four corner code
1-41-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6276 Unicode hex code