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保护 (bǎo hù): meaning and stroke order

保护 (bǎo hù) means to protect, to defend, to safeguard, protection, 种.

保护

Simplified
保护
Traditional
保護
Pinyin
bǎo hù

Stroke order of 保护

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
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

护

  • hù to protect
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 護

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 保护

  1. bǎo hù Traditional 保護
    • to protect
    • to defend
    • to safeguard
    • protection
    • CL:種|种[zhong3]

Radicals of the characters

保
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 9 strokes · 亻 on the left, 呆 on the right
护
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 户 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.

保护 in our stories

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  • 猪八戒在旁边说风凉话：“师父，猴哥一天打死三个人，这哪里是保护您？”

    Zhū Bājiè zài pángbiān shuō fēngliánghuà shīfu Hóugē yì tiān dǎ sǐ sān gè rén zhè nǎli shì bǎohù nín

    Zhu Bajie made snide remarks from the side: "Master, Brother Monkey has killed three people in one day. Is that what you call protecting you?"

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

  • “所以，树不砍，但是伸过去的树枝要修剪。这样既保住了树，又保护了阳光房。”

    suǒyǐ shù bù kǎn dànshì shēn guòqu de shùzhī yào xiūjiǎn zhèyàng jì bǎozhù le shù yòu bǎohù le yángguāngfáng

    "So the tree won't be cut down, but the branches over the wall must be pruned. That way the tree is saved and the sunroom protected."

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 保护

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).