- 助ける【たすける】 - to save, to rescue, to help, to assist, to support (financially), to contribute (to), to provide aid, to facilitate, to stimulate, to promote, to contribute to 
- 助かる【たすかる】 - to be saved, to be rescued, to survive, to escape harm, to be spared damage, to be helped, to be saved trouble 
- 助け【たすけ】 - assistance, help, aid, support, reinforcement 
- 助言【じょげん】 - advice, counsel, suggestion, tip, hint 
- 助手【じょしゅ】 - assistant, helper, assistant (to a professor), research assistant 
- 救助【きゅうじょ】 - relief, aid, rescue 
- 援助【えんじょ】 - assistance, aid, support 
- 手助け【てだすけ】 - a help, assistance 
- 人助け【ひとだすけ】 - act of mercy, helping another person 
- 助け合う【たすけあう】 - to help each other, to cooperate 
- 補助【ほじょ】 - assistance, support, help, aid, subsidy, supplement, subvention, grant-in-aid, spotting (in weight training) 
- 助教授【じょきょうじゅ】 - assistant professor, associate professor 
- 扶助【ふじょ】 - aid, help, assistance, support 
- 助っ人【すけっと】 - helper, supporter, second, backer, foreign player (hired to strengthen a team) 
- 助詞【じょし】 - particle, postpositional word in Japanese grammar that functions as an auxiliary to a main word 
- 賛助【さんじょ】 - support, patronage 
- 助成【じょせい】 - assisting, assistance, fostering, aiding 
- 助力【じょりょく】 - assistance, support 
- 自助【じじょ】 - self-help, self-reliance 
- 助役【じょやく】 - assistant official