Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

457 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: guard, protect, defend, obey

Kunyomi: まも.る まも.り もり -もり かみ

Onyomi: シュ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うかんむり

Meaning: roof

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

備(しゅび)   defense

衛(しゅえい)   security guard

する(ししゅする)   defend to the last

する(げんしゅする)   observe (a rule) strictly

的な(ほしゅてきな)   conservative

(るす)   being away from home

番(るすばん)   house-watching

番電話(るすばんでんわ)   answering machine

る(まもる)   protect, obey

り(おまもり)   amulet

歌(こもりうた)   lullaby

Onyomi Examples

シュビ defense, defence

シュセイ (being on the) defensive

コウシュ good fielding

コウシュ offense and defense, offence and defence, batting and fielding

シュゴ protection, safeguard, shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

居留 イルス pretending to be out

神の留 カミノルス absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)

Kunyomi Examples

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

まもり protection, defense, defence, providence, amulet, charm, talisman

り神 まもりがみ guardian deity

島主 とうしゅ island chief

やまもり ranger (forest), mountain guardian

もり babysitting, babysitter, protecting, keeping, keeper

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

いもり newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)

足無井 あしなしいもり caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)

かみ director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryō system)

肥後 ひごのかみ higonokami, type of folding knife with metal handle

薩摩の さつまのかみ traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (travelling)