防 fáng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 方 square, rectangle
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
防止
fángzhǐ
to prevent
Characters in this word
止 zhǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 止 — to stop, to halt
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 防止感冒吧。 Fáng zhǐ gǎn mào ba. Let us prevent colds.
- 要防止迟到。 Yào fáng zhǐ chí dào. We need to prevent being late.
- 这能防止吗。 Zhè néng fáng zhǐ ma. Can this prevent it.
Related words
- 防 fáng to guard against
- 预防 yùfáng to prevent
- 防治 fángzhì to prevent and treat
- 消防 xiāofáng fire safety; firefighting
- 停止 tíngzhǐ to stop
- 禁止 jìnzhǐ to forbid
- 阻止 zǔzhǐ to stop; to prevent
- 不止 bùzhǐ more than; nonstop
- 为止 wéizhǐ until (up to a point)
- 终止 zhōngzhǐ to stop; to end
- 风险 fēngxiǎn risk
- 保安 bǎo'ān security guard