救星
jiù xīng
Pinyin

Definition

救星
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jiù xīng
  1. savior
  2. liberator
  3. emancipator
  4. knight in shining armor

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

三星
Sān xīng
  1. 1 Sanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yí lán xiàn], Taiwan
  2. 2 Samsung (South Korean electronics company)
拯救
zhěng jiù
  1. 1 to save
  2. 2 to rescue
明星
míng xīng
  1. 1 star
  2. 2 celebrity
星
xīng
  1. 1 star
  2. 2 heavenly body
  3. 3 satellite
  4. 4 small amount
星座
xīng zuò
  1. 1 constellation
  2. 2 astrological sign
  3. 3 classifier: 张 zhāng

Idioms (20)

围魏救赵
wéi Wèi jiù Zhào
  1. 1 lit. to besiege 魏[Wèi] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhào] (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
寥若晨星
liáo ruò chén xīng
  1. 1 rare as morning stars (idiom)
  2. 2 few and far between
  3. 3 sparse
从井救人
cóng jǐng jiù rén
  1. 1 to jump into a well to rescue sb else (idiom); fig. to help others at the risk to oneself
急如星火
jí rú xīng huǒ
  1. 1 lit. as hurried as a shooting star (idiom); requiring immediate action
  2. 2 extremely urgent
抱薪救火
bào xīn jiù huǒ
  1. 1 lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action

Sample Sentences

哇，胡老先生真是我们的大救星啊。我最烦文言文了，什么“之乎者也”，“子曰”，又难懂又没用。天天这么“之乎者也”，地绕来绕去，不晕才怪！
wā ，Hú lǎoxiānsheng zhēn shì wǒmen de dà jiùxīng a 。wǒ zuì fán wényánwén le ，shénme “zhīhūzhěyě ”，“zǐyuē ”，yòu nándǒng yòu méiyòng 。tiāntiān zhème “zhīhūzhěyě ”，de ràoláiràoqù ，bù yūn cái guài ！
Wow, Mr. Hu really was our great liberator. Classical Chinese is the worst. All those modal particles, 'Confucius said', etc. - not only is it hard to understand, it's useless as well. Everyday, 'zhi' this, and 'zhe' that, if that doesn't make you dizzy, I don't know what would!
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