to help / to assist

= + : Mnemonic symbol: water wings helping you to learn how to swim.

Julian Giant Squid wants to learn how to swim and put on a lot of floaties in the space station's bathroom. As he hits the power button to inflate the high tech floaties remotely he forgot that there are still a lot of floaties left, stored in the shelf—he is reminded instanlty as also all of them inflate.

助 character breakdown

and / moreover / yet / for the time being / to be about to / both (... and...)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to me the character 且 looks like a shelf.

The Queen of Hearts (qi) bought a new shelf (且) for all her flutes (一) and set it up in the elevator's living room (e3). Because she is a queen (qi) and needs an extravagant shelf, she installed several Eye of Providences (目) to give the flutes extravagant lighting.
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a power button.

Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.

Characters with 助 as component

a hoe / to hoe or dig / to weed / to get rid of

= + : Chantal Chicken (chu) is hoeing (锄) her garden just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). It is easy to pop the water wings (助) that are growing between the plants with her hoe, but the golden harpoons (钅) are very difficult to get rid of.
exhort / stimulate
variant of 箸[zhu4]
hoe

Words with 助

to help a mother give birth
student grant / education grant / scholarship
auxiliary verb / modal verb
auxiliary verb; modal verb
to support (in battle)
to help people with disabilities
front passenger seat (in a car)
low-powered motorized scooter or bike

Sentences with 助

dài
pín
dào
xia̅ng
zhù
èr
láng
zhe̅n
ju̅n
yi̅
bì
zhi̅
lì