援
yuán HSK6

aid

援 yuán
cite verb
to quote or reference a source, authority, or precedent as support for an argument

处理这种特殊情况，我们可以援例办理。

chǔ​lǐ zhè zhǒng tè​shū qíng​kuàng, wǒ​men kě​yǐ yuán lì bàn​lǐ.

In handling this special situation, we can follow precedent.

assist verb
to provide help, support, or reinforcement to someone or a cause

他在最困难的时候得到了朋友的援手。

tā zài zuì kùn​nan de shí​hou dé​dào le péng​you de yuán​shǒu.

He received a helping hand from a friend during his most difficult time.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,197th most common 114.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,436th most common 48.4 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.86 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+63F4

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)