Assistant
Helper, Aide
noun
Remember how 手 can mean a "doer" in some words? What do you think your help doer is? It’s someone who helps you, so it’s your assistant, helper, or aide.
This is a jukugo word that uses the on'yomi readings of the kanji. You learned the on'yomi reading of 手 with the vocabulary word 投手.
助手をつとめる
to work as an assistant
助手を見る
to look at an assistant
助手をする
to serve as an assistant
弟は心理学者の助手です。
My brother is an assistant of a psychologist.
私の助手は三人の子の母でもあります。
My assistant is also the mother of three children.
社長の助手として、コーヒーを買ってきたり、電話に出たりします。
As the president's assistant, I do things like getting coffee and answering the phone for them.
仮に私が首になった助手の助手だとしたら、それってつまり私も首になっちゃったってこと？
If I'm the assistant to an assistant who was just fired, does that mean that I’m fired too?