(hù) - to protect, to guard (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
hùTraditional: 护
Translation
to protect, to guard (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character (traditional 護): the hand radical 扌gives the sense of a sheltering action, with the right element supplying the sound, yielding to protect or to guard.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (hand radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
护
Examples
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Parents always protect their own children.
环境。
We should protect the environment.
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This jacket can protect you from the cold.
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Mum always shields my little brother.
环境。
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.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 护.
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