护
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- Level 2
- Old HSK
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- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 護
- Common rank
- #546
- Unicode
- U+62A4
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Formation & memory
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How 护 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Guarding 扌 a home 户; 户 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
protect · Heisig RSH #899
fingers + 户 door
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 护
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白水江自然保护区 | Baishuijiang Nature Reserve, Gansu | |
| 重病特护区 | intensive care department (of hospital) | |
| 全国重点文物保护单位 | National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit | |
| 自然保护区 | nature reserve | |
| 护国运动 | Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the… | |
| 重病特护 | intensive care | |
| 特护区 | intensive care department (of hospital) | |
| 国家一级保护 | Grade One State protected (species) | |
| 护理学 | nursing | |
| 一类保护动物 | class A protected animal | |
| 护法神 | protector deities of Buddhist law | |
| 保护主义 | protectionism | |
| 伊通自然保护区 | Yitong nature reserve in Yitong Manchurian autonomous county 伊通滿族自治縣|伊通满族自治县, Siping, Jili… | |
| 护城河 | moat (surrounding the city wall); (fig.) (business) competitive advantage | |
| 保护人 | guardian; carer; patron | |
| 保护区 | conservation district; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] | |
| 保护国 | protectorate | |
| 护国军 | National Protection Army of 1915 (in rebellion against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3… | |
| 护老者 | carer of elderly persons; aged care worker | |
| 三北防护林 | Green Wall of China, a massive afforestation program on the eastern margin of the Gobi Des… |