预防 yùfáng▶ Prevención

Stroke order

预防 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 预 — 10 strokes
• 防 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. to prevent
2. to take precautions against
3. to protect
4. to guard against
5. precautionary
6. prophylactic

Related words

• 预报predicción
• 预订reservar; suscribirse a
• 国防defensa nacional
• 干预intervenir
• 消防Control de incendios
• 防守Defensa

预防 is pronounced yùfáng and means “Prevención”. HSK 5 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 预防 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.