Kanji1 / 20
護 kanji
safeguard, protect
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 20
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ゴ
Kun readings
まもる
Words with 護
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —保護領域protected area
- —防護領域guarded area
- —動物愛護animal rights; animal welfare; animal protection
- —被保護国protectorate (country); dependency; dependent state
- —介護施設nursing home; rest home
- —保護主義protectionism
- —更生保護rehabilitation; social readjustment; aftercare; parole
- —保護細胞guard cell
- —鎮護国家spiritual protection of the state
- —法的保護legal protection (e.g. of an environment or cultural asset)
- —看護師長head nurse
- —安全保護security
- —介護予防preventive care, esp. for senior citizens
- —監護義務custodial duties
- —観護措置placing a minor under protective detention; imposing a care and custody order
- —守護聖人patron saint
- —守護大名provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)
- —多重防護defence in depth; multiple safeguard; multiple protection
- —訪問看護home nursing; home care
- —老人介護care for the aged; elderly care; aged care