Chinese Character 防 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

防 meaning^[3] in English

To Protect.

To Defend.

To Guard Against.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 防 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (阝) , and surname Fang (方)

Its radical^[1] is: 阜 (fu4) which means: Abundant, Mound, .阜fu4abundant

In cangjie it is written with NLYHS

How to write 防

To write防fang2to protect you should write a combination of 阝fu4 , 方fang1surname Fang arranged in a 吅 shape:

阝 + 方 = 防

防 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 防 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 防, looks as follow: