shǒu

  1. shǒu verb to defend; to protect; to guard; to keep safe
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 防卫 or 保护 (Guoyu '守' v 1; Kroll 2015 '守' 1; Unihan '守'; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1351; XHZD '守' 1)
  2. shǒu verb to watch over
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '守' 1b; XHZD '守' 2)
  3. shǒu verb to observe; to abide by
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 遵行; for example, 守法 'abide by the law' (Guoyu '守' v 3; Kroll 2015 '守' 2; XHZD '守' 3)
  4. shǒu verb to be near; to be close to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (XHZD '守' 4)
  5. shǒu proper noun Governor
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As an official title; for example in 太守 'Grand Governor' (Guoyu '守' n 2; Hucker 1985 , p. 13; Kroll 2015 '守' 3)
  6. shǒu noun duty; an official post
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 官职 or 职责; also pronounced shòu (Guoyu '守' n 1; Kroll 2015 '守' shòu)
  7. shǒu noun personal integrity; moral character
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 节操, as in 操守 (Guoyu '守' n 3)
  8. shǒu proper noun Shou
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '守' n 4)
  9. shǒu verb to preserve; to conserve
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 保持; for example, the idiom 守身如玉 'preserve one's body like jade [to preserve one's purity]' (Guoyu '守' v 2)
  10. shǒu verb to wait for
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 等待; as in 守候 (Guoyu '守' v 4)
  11. shǒu verb to rely on
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 依赖 (Guoyu '守' v 5)
  12. shòu verb to hunt
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 狩 (Guoyu '守' shòu)
  13. shǒu verb protect; gupta
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: gupta, Japanese: shu, or: su, Tibetan: sbas pa'am bsrungs pa (BCSD '守', p. 371; Mahāvyutpatti 'guptaḥ'; MW 'gupta'; SH '守', p. 211)

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