1 to save

2 to rescue

1 variant: 救 jiù

1 to help

2 to support

3 to aid

4 aid

5 assistance

1 to save sb's life

2 (interj.) Help!

3 Save me!

1 external help

2 foreign aid

1 to besiege and strike the relief force (idiom); strategy of surrounding a unit to entice the enemy to reinforce, then striking the new troops

1 lit. to besiege 魏[Wèi] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhào] (idiom)

2 fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers

1 out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom); in desperate straits

1 to jump into a well to rescue sb else (idiom); fig. to help others at the risk to oneself

1 lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action