Illustration: At a Japanese fishing harbor, a person who has fallen into the water now has both arms securely over a lifebuoy. A harbor worker kneels on the quay, gripping its rope and drawing them toward a fixed ladder.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

救すくい

sukui

help, rescue, relief

Example sentences

  1. アフリカの難民なんみんが救すくいを求もとめている。

    Refugees in Africa are seeking help.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 飢饉ききんなどの天災てんさいにより寄よる辺べをなくした民衆みんしゅうなどは宣教師せんきょうしの慈善活動じぜんかつどうに救すくいを見出みいだし、家族かぞくぐるみ・村むらぐるみで帰依きえすることもあった。

    Peasants who suffered from natural disasters such as famine, and had nobody to turn to, found themselves being rescued by the charity work of missionaries and embraced Christianity, bringing with them a whole family or even a village.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 『トムとメアリー』は最後さいごまで救すくいのない暗くらい話はなしだった。

    “Tom and Mary” was a dark, hopeless story right to the end.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 救

  • 救salvation; saveOnキュウKunすくう

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