shǒu​tǔ

to defend territory

守土 shǒu//tǔ
to defend territory
to guard or defend the territory of a country and maintain peace; to protect the homeland
local official
(literary) an official who is responsible for governing and defending a specific locality
garrison soldiers
(archaic) soldiers stationed to guard a territory

Frequency

Written text
0.154 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)