yù fáng

Traditional: 預防

HSK 3

预防 (yù fáng) is a Chinese word meaning “to prevent; to take precautions against; to protect”.

Meanings

  1. 1to prevent
  2. 2to take precautions against
  3. 3to protect
  4. 4to guard against
  5. 5precautionary
  6. 6prophylactic
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 预防

预yù · to advance防fáng · to protect

Related words

防to protect预约booking预言to predict消防firefighting预测to forecast防守to defend预感to have a premonition预算budget预备to prepare防止to prevent以防万一to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case预料to forecast

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