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保险 (bǎo xiǎn): meaning and stroke order

保险 (bǎo xiǎn) means insurance, to insure, safe, secure, be sure, be bound to, CL:份.

保险

Simplified
保险
Traditional
保險
Pinyin
bǎo xiǎn

Stroke order of 保险

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

险

  • xiǎn danger; dangerous
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 險

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 保险

  1. bǎo xiǎn Traditional 保險
    • insurance
    • to insure
    • safe
    • secure
    • be sure
    • be bound to
    • CL:份[fen4]

Radicals of the characters

保
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 9 strokes · 亻 on the left, 呆 on the right
险
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 9 strokes · 阝 on the left, 佥 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.

保险 in our stories

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  • 甄太太的脸一下子白了。半个小时以后，她承认：项链早就被她卖了，她想让保险公司赔钱。

    Zhēn tàitai de liǎn yíxiàzi bái le bàn gè xiǎoshí yǐhòu tā chéngrèn xiàngliàn zǎo jiù bèi tā mài le tā xiǎng ràng bǎoxiǎn gōngsī péi qián

    Mrs Zhen turned white. Half an hour later she admitted that she had sold the necklace long ago and wanted the insurance company to pay out.

    From the story The dry floor HSK 6

  • 更让人吃惊的是，就在沉船前一个月，公司给这条旧船买了一份高额保险。

    gèng ràng rén chījīng de shì jiù zài chénchuán qián yí gè yuè gōngsī gěi zhè tiáo jiù chuán mǎi le yí fèn gāo'é bǎoxiǎn

    Even more shocking, just a month before the sinking, the company had bought a large insurance policy on this old ship.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 至于车的损失，郝大爷主动说，修车的钱他来出。贝女士却摆摆手：“不用了，保险能赔。不过，修剪树枝的时候，能不能叫上我？”

    zhìyú chē de sǔnshī Hǎo dàye zhǔdòng shuō xiū chē de qián tā lái chū Bèi nǚshì què bǎibǎishǒu bú yòng le bǎoxiǎn néng péi búguò xiūjiǎn shùzhī de shíhou néng bù néng jiào shàng wǒ

    As for the car, Mr Hao offered to pay for the repair himself. But Ms Bei waved it away: "No need, the insurance will pay. But when you prune the branches, could you call me?"

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

Stories using 保险

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).