保
Translingual
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Han character
保 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人口木 (ORD), four-corner 26294, composition ⿰亻呆)
Descendants
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 105, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 702
- Dae Jaweon: page 222, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 160, character 4
- Unihan data for U+4FDD
Chinese
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simp. # | 保 |
Glyph origin
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script |
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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In the oracle script, this character was an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 人 (“person”) + 子 (“child”) – a person carrying a child on the back; to carry (a child) > to protect.
In early bronze inscriptions, 爪 (“hand”) was added to the person to emphasize that the person was carrying the child. This was later simplified into one or two strokes. The current form has two.
Pronunciation
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Definitions
- to raise; to rear
- to keep; to maintain
- to protect; to safeguard; to defend
- to ensure; to guarantee
- guarantor
- Short for 保釋/保释 (bǎoshì, “to bail”).
- (historical) bao (a unit of the ancient administrative system, consisting of some 100 households)
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Synonyms
- (to raise):
- (to keep):
- (to protect):
- (to ensure):
- (guarantor):
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
- Go-on: ほう (hō)
- Kan-on: ほう (hō)
- Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho, Jōyō)
- Kun: たもつ (tamotsu, 保つ, Jōyō); やすんじる (yasunjiru, 保んじる)
Compounds
Proper noun
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- a male given name
Korean
Hanja
保 (eum 보 (bo))
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Vietnamese
Han character
保: Hán Nôm readings: bảo, bầu, bửu
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References
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- Elementary Mandarin
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- Japanese kanji with goon reading ほう
- Japanese kanji with kan'on reading ほう
- Japanese kanji with kan'yōon reading ほ
- Japanese kanji with kun reading たも・つ
- Japanese kanji with kun reading やす・んじる
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
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- Japanese terms spelled with 保
- Japanese single-kanji terms
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- Korean lemmas
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