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  *防* | 防* | *防
to protect / to defend / to guard against / to prevent
HSK 3
to prevent / to guard against / to take precautions
HSK 3
to defend / to protect (against)
HSK 6
to prevent / to take precautions against / to protect / to guard against / precautionary / prophylactic
HSK 3
firefighting / fire control
HSK 5
to prevent and cure / prevention and cure
HSK 5
(Tw) to combat (bullying, money laundering etc) / to counter
national defense
HSK 7-9
Siegfried Line, line of German military defenses during WWI and WWII
protective cape
(Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter
border station / frontier post
civil air defence (abbr. for 人民防空)
to guard against theft / anti-theft
HSK 7-9
to prevent epidemics
HSK 7-9
city defense
fireman
firewall
HSK 7-9
to guard against
immunization injection / fig. forewarning / heads-up / preventive measure
(so as) to avoid / to prevent / (just) in case
to be on guard / wariness / to guard against / preventive
HSK 6
collective protection
anti-aircraft defense
to defend / to protect
HSK 7-9
Defense Department / Ministry of National Defense
dike / embankment / levee
(gaming) tower defense
firefighter; fireman
Fangcheng, a district of Fangchenggang City 防城港市, Guangxi
antimagnetic
to nip in the bud (idiom)
to prevent and control (e.g. the spread of a communicable disease)
prophylactic inoculation
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
fire brigade / fire department
refrain from hurting others, yet guard against those trying to hurt you (proverb)
to take preventative measures; to guard against accident or disaster
to protect against fire
to guard against / to be vigilant / watch you don't (slip) / Taiwan pr. [ti2 fang2]
HSK 7-9
to protect against poisonous substances, narcotics or computer viruses
riot police / riot squad
(idiom) virtually impossible to prevent
protective gloves
radiation protection
flood control / flood prevention
snow chain (for a vehicle tire)
safety goggles
lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
guardedness; wariness; mental defenses
flood control / anti-flood (precautions)
HSK 7-9
security door
HSK 7-9
rotproof / antiseptic / anti-corrosion
fire hydrant
sunburn protection
to attack and defend (usu. in reference to opposing sides, but can be one party playing both roles)
(video games) to break through an opponent's defenses / (by extension) (slang) to get to sb / to make sb feel upset or moved
air force / air defense
bulletproof
Haiphong, a major port city in northern Vietnam
coastal defense
to take strict precautions / on your guard
breakwater / seawall / fig. defensive buffer zone
to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case / prepared for any eventualities
protective step / protective measure
to defend / defensive / defense
HSK 7-9
to be caught off guard / without warning
anti-fraud / anti-cheating / preventing wrongdoing
riot shield
earned run average (baseball)
defensive weapon
(pertaining to) defense
defensive (weapons)
reasonable self-defense / legitimate defense
antichemical rescue
antipinch (e.g. preventing catching fingers in automatic car windows)
anti-virus software
(Tw) khaki / camouflage colors (beige, brown etc)
psychological barrier
(national) defense interests
modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
overcoat / down jacket / winter wear
to reinforce defenses
strategic defense initiative (SDI)
fortification / defensive structure
radiological defense
to prepare to meet the enemy head-on
to lay out a defense
to suppress a riot / riot control
pepper spray
frontier defense
fire station
waterproof
groundsheet (for camping etc)
Great Firewall of China (system for restricting access to foreign websites)
fire engine / fire truck
green pest prevention and control; environmentally friendly methods of pest control and prevention
storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
gas mask

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