Traditional: 护

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Translation

to protect, to guard (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 护

Examples

Parents always protect their own children.

huánjìng

We should protect the environment.

This jacket can protect you from the cold.

Mum always shields my little brother.

huánjìng

Please everyone, protect the environment.

护 (hù) means to protect or guard. It rarely stands alone in modern Mandarin and almost always appears bound to another morpheme, most commonly in 保护 (bǎo hù), to protect.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 护.

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This word is part of lesson 105.