Meaning of 急救
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- to give emergency treatment
- first aid
How to use 急救
急救 is used for first aid and emergency medical care, and it often appears in compounds like 急救车 (jíjiùchē, ambulance), 急救箱 (jíjiùxiāng, first aid kit) and 急救中心 (jíjiù zhōngxīn, emergency center). Example: 医生正在给他急救。(Yīshēng zhèngzài gěi tā jíjiù.) The doctor is giving him emergency treatment.
急 (jí) means urgent or in a hurry, and 救 (jiù) means to save or rescue. Put them together and you get saving someone when there is no time to lose: emergency treatment.
Common mistake: Learners often mix up 急救 and 抢救 (qiǎngjiù). 急救 is the general idea of emergency care or first aid, while 抢救 stresses a desperate effort to save a life or rescue something, as in 抢救无效 (the rescue efforts failed). Also keep 急 in the second tone, jí, not jǐ as in 紧急 (jǐnjí).
急救 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
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急 jí · urgent · 9 strokes
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救 jiù · to save · 11 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 急救.
| 紧急 | jǐnjí | urgent; emergency |
| 着急 | zháojí | to worry; to feel anxious; to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry |
| 急忙 | jímáng | hastily |
| 抢救 | qiǎngjiù | to rescue |
| 救灾 | jiùzāi | to relieve disaster; to help disaster victims |
| 救命 | jiùmìng | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help! |
| 救援 | jiùyuán | to save; to support |
| 应急 | yìngjí | to respond to an emergency; to meet a contingency |
| 救助 | jiùzhù | to help sb in trouble; aid |
| 拯救 | zhěngjiù | to save; to rescue |
| 救护车 | jiùhùchē | ambulance |
| 挽救 | wǎnjiù | to save; to remedy |
Questions about 急救
What does 急救 mean?
急救 (jíjiù) means "to give emergency treatment; first aid" and is used as a verb.
How do you write 急救?
急救 is made of 2 characters: 急 (9 strokes), 救 (11 strokes). That is 20 strokes in total.
Is 急救 an HSK word?
Yes. 急救 is on the HSK 6 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How do you say 'emergency room' in Chinese?
The most common term is 急诊室 (jízhěnshì), or just 急诊 (jízhěn). 急救 is about the treatment itself, while 急诊 refers to the emergency department where you go to be seen.
Can 急救 be used as a noun, like 'first aid'?
Yes. Although it is listed as a verb, it works like a noun in phrases such as 学习急救知识 (xuéxí jíjiù zhīshi), to learn first aid knowledge, or 急救培训 (jíjiù péixùn), first aid training.