Kanji1 / 6
守 kanji
guard, protect, defend, obey
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シュス
Kun readings
まもるまもりもり-もりかみ
Variant forms
垨Words with 守
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1守衛Popular(security) guard; caretaker; janitor; doorkeeper; gatekeeper
- N1守備Populardefense; defence; fielding
- N1保守Popularmaintenance; conservatism; conservativeness; conservation
- —看守Popularprison guard; warder; jailer; gaoler
- —厳守Popularstrict observance; rigid adherence; scrupulous compliance
- —攻守Popularoffense and defense; offence and defence; batting and fielding
- —遵守Popularobservance (of laws, rules, etc.); adherence; obeying; following; abiding by; compliance
- —鎮守Popularlocal Shinto deity; tutelary god
- —好守Populargood fielding
- —守勢Popular(being on the) defensive
- —保守党PopularConservative Party
- —保守的Popularconservative
- —専守防衛Popularnonaggressive defense (policy) (defence)
- —順守Popularobservance (of laws, rules, etc.); adherence; obeying; following; abiding by; compliance
- —固守clinging
- —守護protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
- —操守constancy; fidelity
- —天守castle tower
- —墨守adherence (to custom, tradition)
- —死守defending to the last; desperate defence; stubborn defence