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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *防* | 防* | *防
to protect / to defend / to guard against / to prevent
HSK 3
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  *保* | 保* | *保
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system
HSK 3
to protect / to defend / to safeguard / protection / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
to defend / to safeguard
HSK 5
to defend / to protect (against)
HSK 6
to defend / to safeguard / to protect / to uphold / to maintain
HSK 4
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  *守* | 守* | *守
to guard / to defend / to keep watch / to abide by the law / to observe (rules or ritual) / nearby / adjoining
HSK 4
to defend; to uphold; to safeguard
HSK 7-9
to defend one's country
to serve in the role of / (sports) to play as (midfielder, defender etc)
to explain the facts / to defend against an accusation
to defend / to protect
HSK 7-9
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor
guardian / defender
to guard / to defend
duty to defend the country (idiom)
to defend against the cold; to keep warm
to speak in defense of / to argue in favor of / to defend / to plead
HSK 7-9
to hold on to / to defend / to keep / to guard
to defend oneself / self-defense
HSK 7-9
to explain / to justify / to defend (a point of view etc) / to provide an explanation / to try to defend oneself
HSK 7-9
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
defender / a guard
stronghold / defended military base / base for operations / strategic point / foothold / (market) presence
to reply (to an accusation) / to defend one's dissertation
HSK 7-9
defender (usu. of sth abstract such as people's rights or a government policy)
to defend / defensive / defense
HSK 7-9
to keep watch and defend one another (idiom, from Mencius); to join forces to defend against external aggressors / mutual help and protection
defenders
to defend (legal) rights
defense / to defend
HSK 7-9
to hedge (one's bets) / to defend against risk
to defend the crown (in sports championship)
defender / apologist
to defend traditional values
to attack and defend (usu. in reference to opposing sides, but can be one party playing both roles)
to defend one's country
to preserve one's heritage / to defend the accomplishments of previous generations / to carry on the good work / to keep one's business going
to defend oneself / to rebut a charge
(of a defendant) to respond to a charge / to defend oneself
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *御* | 御* | *御
(bound form) to defend; to resist
powerless to defend oneself (idiom); helpless
to garrison; to defend (a frontier) / soldier garrisoned at a frontier
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 as emperor
Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 as emperor
(of troops stationed in a strategic area) to defend / (fig.) to stand guard / to protect
to strongly defend one's position / to be entrenched / to cling to
to defend sb (a relative, friend or oneself) despite knowing that that person is in the wrong
Yang Ye (died 986), Chinese military general of the Northern Han and the Northern Song dynasties, defended the Song against invasion by the Liao 遼|辽
(man a post and) defend
to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb
defender / defending counsel
defender
to give up defending / to yield / to surrender
to offer an explanation / to plead innocence / to try to defend oneself
to defend
to defend oneself / self-defense / self-preservation
strategically situated and easy to defend / strategic location
to defend one's property to the death / to cling obstinately to old habits / die-hard
(Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu]) / Taiwan pr. [ying4ao1]
to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship
border fort, esp. defending narrow valley
self-protection / to defend oneself
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  *卫* | 卫* | *卫
to guard / to protect / to defend / abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene / health / abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捍* | 捍* | *捍
to ward off (a blow) / to withstand / to defend
to retreat and defend / to withdraw and maintain one's guard
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  *衞* | 衞* | *衞
variant of 衛|卫 / to guard / to defend


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