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Kanji Grade 3 - 守

Kanji character Grade 3 守. Writing practice along with onyomi and kunyomi readings.

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Kanji Grade 3 - 守
About
guard, protect, defend, obey
Kun: まも.る、 まも.り、 もり、 -もり、 かみ
On: シュ、 ス
6 strokes
Radical: roof 宀
Parts: 宀 寸
Variants: 垨
 
Onyomi
守備 【シュビ】 defense, defence
守勢 【シュセイ】 (being on the) defensive
好守 【コウシュ】 good fielding
攻守 【コウシュ】 offense and defense, offence and defence, batting and fielding
守護 【シュゴ】 protection, safeguard, shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
居留守 【イルス】 pretending to be out
神の留守 【カミノルス】 absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)
 
Kunyomi
守る 【まもる】 to protect, to guard, to defend, to keep (i.e. a promise), to abide (by the rules), to observe, to obey, to follow
守り 【まもり】 protection, defense, defence, providence, amulet, charm, talisman
守り神 【まもりがみ】 guardian deity
山守 【やまもり】 ranger (forest), mountain guardian
守り 【もり】 babysitting, babysitter, protecting, keeping, keeper
守り立てる 【もりたてる】 to support, to back up, to rally round, to revive (e.g. a company), to boost (e.g. morale), to bring up, to raise
井守 【いもり】 newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)
足無井守 【あしなしいもり】 caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
守 【かみ】 director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)
肥後守 【ひごのかみ】 higonokami, type of folding knife with metal handle
薩摩の守 【さつまのかみ】 traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (travelling)