Kanji1 / 16
衛 kanji
defense, protection
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
エイエ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
衞Words with 衛
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —衛生上hygiene-related; sanitary; from a hygiene standpoint; in terms of hygiene; with respect to health
- —衛生兵combat medic; medic
- —衛生学hygienics
- —衛生隊medical corps
- —衛星国satellite country; satellite state
- —禁衛隊imperial guards
- —非衛生unsanitary; unhygienic
- —親衛兵a personal guard or bodyguard
- —親衛隊bodyguards; elite guards; imperial guards; Schutzstaffel; SS; groupies; ardent fans
- —自衛権right of self defense; right of self defence
- —護衛兵body guard; military escort
- —紅衛兵(Chinese) Red Guards
- —前衛派the avant-garde
- —防衛費defense spending; defense costs
- —防衛省Ministry of Defense
- —防衛力defense capability (defence)
- —前衛的avant-garde
- —防衛策defensive measure; defense plan
- —白衛軍White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)
- —防衛戦defensive battle