保 (Bǎo): meaning and stroke order
保 (Bǎo) means Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亚), to defend; to protect; to keep, to guarantee; to ensure.
保
- Simplified
- 保
- Traditional
- 保 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Bǎo
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Stroke order of 保
保
- Bǎo Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])
- bǎo to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure
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Meaning of 保
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Bǎo
- Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])
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bǎo
- to defend; to protect; to keep
- to guarantee; to ensure
- (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system
Radical and structure
- 保
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 9 strokes · 亻 on the left, 呆 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 保
- 保留 bǎo liú to keep; to retain
- 保护 bǎo hù to protect; to defend
- 保住 bǎo zhù to preserve; to save
- 保险 bǎo xiǎn insurance; to insure
- 保证 bǎo zhèng guarantee; to guarantee
- 保存 bǎo cún to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to store; (computing) to save (a file etc)
- 保护区 bǎo hù qū conservation district; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).