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Kotomora

援

abet, help, save

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 500Strokes12

Readings

On'yomi

  • エン

Kun'yomi

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Meaning

援 centers on giving active support to someone in need: helping, aiding, or saving them from difficulty. The idea of abetting fits as a more active or even questionable form of assistance.

Most common words using 援

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  • 支援しえん
    N2

    support; backing; aid; assistance

  • 応援おうえん
    N3

    aid; assistance; help; support; reinforcement

  • 援助えんじょ
    N3

    assistance; aid; support

  • 援護えんご

    support; help; backing

  • 救援きゅうえん
    N1

    relief; rescue

  • 後援こうえん
    N1

    support; backing

  • 援軍えんぐん

    reinforcement

  • 声援せいえん
    N1

    (shout of) encouragement; cheering; rooting; support

  • 援交えんこう

    paid dating (esp. with an underage girl; oft. involving selling of sex); compensated dating

  • 増援ぞうえん

    reinforcement (e.g. of troops)

  • 義援金ぎえんきん

    donation money (esp. disaster relief or charity); contribution

  • 援用えんよう

    quotation (to support one's argument); citation (e.g. of a precedent); invocation; claim

  • 無援むえん

    helpless; unsupporting

  • 援助交際えんじょこうさい

    paid dating (esp. with an underage girl; oft. involving selling of sex); compensated dating

  • 来援らいえん

    assistance; support

  • 支援策しえんさく
    N1

    support measures; assistance measures; support plan

  • コンピューター援用生産コンピューターえんようせいさん

    computer-aided manufacture; CAM

  • コンピューター援用設計コンピューターえんようせっけい

    computer-aided design; CAD

  • サンパウロ日伯援護協会サンパウロにっぱくえんごきょうかい

    Beneficência Nipo-Brasileira de São Paulo (Japanese association in Brazil)

  • タイド援助タイドえんじょ

    tied aid

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Etymology

援 combines 扌 (hand) with 爰, which likely contributes both sound and the idea of pulling or drawing toward. Together they suggest lending a hand to help or save someone.

Meaning mnemonic

The hand radical 扌 beside 爰 looks like a hand reaching out to pull someone up. Picture a rescuer extending a hand to help a person in trouble.

Reading mnemonic

For エン, imagine the helping hand is the end of a long rescue rope: end -> エン, and you pull someone to safety.