保
保 in English
- to defend / to protect / to keep / to guarantee / to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3jia3] system
Measure word
- 名 míng name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people attested in use
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 24 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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万一船运迟了，我们有特别的迟到保险。
In case the shipment is delayed, we have special delay insurance.
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上帝保佑你！
Bless you!
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上帝保佑你们！
God bless you!
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人生就像骑单车一样，要保持平衡就得不停地前进。
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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他保证过会来却没有来。
He promised to come, but he didn't come.
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他告訴我們要保持安靜。
He told us to keep quiet.
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他要求我保存秘密。
He requested me to keep it secret.
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你应该一直让手保持干净。
You must always keep your hands clean.