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守护

shǒu hù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 守護

守护 (shǒu hù) means "to guard; to protect". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 守护 means

1. to guard
2. to protect

The characters in 守护

• 守shǒuto guard; to defend; to keep watch
• 护hùto protect

Example sentences

• 默默守护中，有人跑到街头，叫来了协警。
  Mòmò shǒuhù zhōng, yǒurén pǎo dào jiētóu, jiào lái le xiéjǐng.
  As everyone stood guard silently, someone ran to the corner of the street and called over a police officer.

Words starting with 守护

• 守护神shǒu hù shénprotector God; patron saint

Where 守护 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shí–shū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǒu hù correctly.
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