"To defend" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 保护 | bǎo hù | to protect / to defend / to safeguard / protection / CL:種|种[zhong3] |   |
| 维护 | wéi hù | to defend / to safeguard / to protect / to uphold / to maintain | |
| 防御 | fáng yù | defense / to defend | |
| 防守 | fáng shǒu | to defend / to protect (against) | |
| 保卫 | bǎo wèi | to defend / to safeguard | |
| 辩解 | biàn jiě | to explain / to justify / to defend (a point of view etc) / to provide an explanation / to try to defend oneself | |
| 辩护 | biàn hù | to speak in defense of / to argue in favor of / to defend / to plead | |
| 捍卫 | hàn wèi | to defend / to uphold / to safeguard | |
| 防护 | fáng hù | to defend / to protect | |
| 维权 | wéi quán | to defend (legal) rights | |
| 守卫 | shǒu wèi | to guard / to defend | |
| 防卫 | fáng wèi | to defend / defensive / defense | |
| 守住 | shǒu zhu | to hold on to / to defend / to keep / to guard | |
| 镇守 | zhèn shǒu | (of troops stationed in a strategic area) to defend / (fig.) to stand guard / to protect | |
| 保 |  bǎo | to defend / to protect / to keep / to guarantee / to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3jia3] system | |
| 守御 | shǒu yù | to defend | |
| 防 | fáng | to protect / to defend / to guard against / to prevent | |
| 卫 | wèi | to guard / to protect / to defend / abbr. for 衛生|卫生, hygiene / health / abbr. for 衛生間|卫生间, toilet | |
| 守 | shǒu | to guard / to defend / to keep watch / to abide by the law / to observe (rules or ritual) / nearby / adjoining | |
| 御 | yù | (bound form) to defend / to resist | |
| 捍 | hàn | to ward off (a blow) / to withstand / to defend | |
| 屯戍 | tún shù | to garrison / to defend (a frontier) / soldier garrisoned at a frontier | |
| 衞 | wèi | variant of 衛|卫[wei4] / to guard / to defend | |
| 洗地 | xǐ dì | to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb | |
