Meanings
Guard, Protect, Defend, Obey
Radicals
Decomposition
⿱宀寸
Etymology
Ideographic: Keeping something 寸 within one's walls 宀
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
Words Using This Kanji
170 words totalShuhari
to stare at
it is easy to start an enterprise but hard to maintain it
to be punctual
olm (Proteus anguinus)
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
to keep one's chastity
maintenance train
protecting a rice field
guard
guard
fruits left on a tree during winter (supposedly causing more fruits to appear in the next season)
person who tends to trees (e.g. in a garden)
patron saint
provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)
conservative government
running, hitting and fielding
maintenance checkup
to pretend to not be home
tokay gecko (Gekko gecko)