Chinese symbol for “defense”
防御
fáng yù
Traditional: 防禦
defense; to defend
The closest CC-CEDICT match for defense is 防御 (fáng yù), defined as: defense; to defend.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “defense”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 防务 (防務) | fáng wù | (pertaining to) defense |
| 辩方 (辯方) | biàn fāng | (law) the defense |
| 防卫 (防衛) | fáng wèi | to defend; defensive |
| 抗辩 (抗辯) | kàng biàn | to counter accusations; to protest |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 防御.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 防止 | fáng zhǐ | to prevent; to guard against |
| 预防 (預防) | yù fáng | to prevent; to take precautions against |
| 国防 (國防) | guó fáng | national defense |
| 防治 | fáng zhì | to prevent and cure; prevention and cure |
| 防范 (防範) | fáng fàn | to be on guard; wariness |
| 抵御 (抵禦) | dǐ yù | to resist; to withstand |
| 御史 | yù shǐ | imperial censor (formal title of a dynastic official) |
| 御用 | yù yòng | for use by the emperor; imperial |
See also: Japanese symbol for “defense”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.