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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
- —保守系conservative
- —保守性maintainability; serviceability
- —守備兵guards
- —守備隊garrison
- —守護神guardian deity
- —鎮守府naval district (of the Imperial Japanese Navy); naval station; military base (for suppressing Emishi; in ancient Japan)
- —監守人custodian
- —守護霊guardian spirit
- —守備率one's fielding average
- —保守派conservatives
- —守護竜guardian dragon
- —鎮守社Shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area
- —超保守ultraconservatism; archconservatism
- —守衛所guard station; guard house; guard post
- —保守盤maintenance panel
- —守破離Shuhari; three stages of mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, creating one's own techniques
- —守護人guard; protector
- —走攻守running, hitting and fielding
- —守備的defensive
- —守護代acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)