保

Descendants

 * Japanese: ,

Glyph origin
In the oracle script, this character was an – a person carrying a child on his back; to carry (a child) > to protect.

In early bronze inscriptions, 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.

Definitions

 * 1) to raise; to rear
 * 2) to keep; to maintain
 * 3) to protect; to safeguard; to defend
 * 4) to ensure; to guarantee
 * 5) guarantor
 * 6)  bao
 * : Bao
 * 1)  bao
 * : Bao

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Kanji

 * 1) protection
 * 2) guarantee