音読み: キュウ
訓読み: すくう
画数: 11
部首: 攵（のぶん）
Meaning
Rescue / Save / Help / Relief
- Basic forms
- 救う — to save; to rescue / base form
- 救います — save; rescue / masu form
- 救った — saved; rescued / ta form
- 救って — save and … / te form
- 救わない — do not save / negative
- 救えば — if (one) saves / conditional
- 救え — save! / imperative
- Common expressions
- 命を救う — save a life
- 人を救う — rescue someone
- 困っている人を救う — help someone in trouble
- More
- 救われる — be saved / passive
- 救われない — cannot be saved
救う（すくう） is a godan verb. It means to save or rescue someone from danger, suffering, or difficulty, and is used both in physical and abstract contexts.
- 救急 — emergency aid
- 救助 — rescue / relief
- 救援 — support / assistance
- 救命 — life-saving
- 救出 — extraction / rescue
- 救済 — relief / salvation
- 救護 — first aid; protection
救 combines 求 (to seek) with 攵 (action), expressing an act taken to help or deliver relief—used in emergency and humanitarian contexts.
彼は 命を 救われた。
His life was saved.
救急車を 呼んでください。
Please call an ambulance.
救助 — rescue / relief