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卫 — to guard; to protect; to defend

to guard; to protect; to defend; health

Pinyin
wèi · Wèi
Strokes
3
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — wèi, Wèi — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 卫: 3 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

卫 — 3 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 卫 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 卫生间wèishēngjiānbathroom; toilet; WCHSK 3
  2. 卫生wèishēnghygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitationHSK 4
  3. 保卫bǎowèito defend; to safeguardHSK 7–9
  4. 防卫fángwèito defend; defensive; defenseHSK 7–9
  5. 捍卫hànwèito defend; to uphold; to safeguardHSK 7–9
  6. 卫视wèishìsatellite TVHSK 7–9
  7. 卫星wèixīngsatellite; satellite; moonHSK 7–9
  8. 自卫zìwèito defend oneself; self-defenseHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.