保卫 bǎowèi▶ Defender

Stroke order

保卫 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 保 — 9 strokes
• 卫 — 3 strokes

Senses

1. to defend
2. to safeguard

Related words

• 保养mantener
• 保姆enfermera; niñera
• 保守Conservador
• 保密secreto
• 保管Custodia
• 保重cuidarse

保卫 is pronounced bǎowèi and means “Defender”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 保卫 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.