防
Meaning
- to protect
- to defend
- to guard against
Example sentence
请叫消防员。
Please call the fire department.
The character 防
防 is 阝, an embankment, beside 方: the dyke that keeps the water out. To guard against — 防止 to prevent, 预防 to take precautions, 消防 fire safety — always about what has not happened yet.