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卫

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to guard; to protect; to defend; abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene; health; abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet

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HSK 3.0
Level 3
Old HSK
Level 4
Strokes
3
Radical
卩 +1
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
衛
Common rank
#444
Unicode
U+536B

Formation & memory

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How 卫 is formed

Components 乛 一

How to remember it

defend · Heisig RSH #1112

chop + floor

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 卫

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
卫生下水道 wèi shēng xià shuǐ dào (Tw) sanitary sewer system
卫理公会 Wèi lǐ Gōng huì Methodists
中卫市 Zhōng wèi Shì Zhongwei, prefecture-level city in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia…
保家卫国 bǎo jiā wèi guó guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
世界卫生大会 Shì jiè Wèi shēng Dà huì World Health Assembly
卫东区 Wèi dōng Qū Weidong, a district of Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市[Ping2 ding3 shan1 Shi4], Henan
火卫一 Huǒ wèi Yī Phobos (moon of Mars), aka Mars I
木卫一 Mù wèi Yī Io (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter I
中前卫 zhōng qián wèi center forward (soccer position)
卫生球 wèi shēng qiú mothball
爱国卫生运动委员会 Ài guó Wèi shēng Yùn dòng Wěi yuán huì Patriotic Health Committee
安特卫普 Ān tè wèi pǔ Antwerp (city in Belgium)
大卫·尼尔 Dà wèi · Ní ěr Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet…
木卫三 Mù wèi Sān Ganymede (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter III
地球同步卫星 dì qiú tóng bù wèi xīng (astronomy) geosynchronous satellite
国内安全保卫局 Guó nèi Ān quán Bǎo wèi jú Domestic Security Protection Bureau, the department of the Ministry of Public Security res…
通信卫星 tōng xìn wèi xīng communications satellite
公共卫生 gōng gòng wèi shēng public health
环卫工人 huán wèi gōng rén sanitation worker
大卫 Dà wèi (name) David