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Mythic Mandarin

获救 (huò jiù): meaning and stroke order

获救 (huò jiù) means to be rescued; to be saved.

获救

Simplified
获救
Traditional
獲救
Pinyin
huò jiù

Stroke order of 获救

获

  • huò (literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win
  • huò (bound form) to reap; to harvest
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 獲

Stroke by stroke

救

  • jiù variant of 救[jiu4]
  • jiù to save; to assist
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 捄

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 获救

  1. huò jiù Traditional 獲救
    • to be rescued; to be saved

Radicals of the characters

获
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 10 strokes · 艹 on top, 犾 below
救
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 11 strokes · 求 on the left, 攵 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

获救 in our stories

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  • 一百年前的一个冬夜，客轮“海兴号”在离港口不远的海上沉没了，好在船上的乘客全部获救。

    yìbǎi nián qián de yí gè dōngyè kèlún Hǎixīng hào zài lí gǎngkǒu bù yuǎn de hǎi shàng chénmò le hǎozài chuán shàng de chéngkè quánbù huòjiù

    One winter night a hundred years ago, the passenger ship Haixing sank not far from port; fortunately all the passengers were rescued.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 获救

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).