bǎo​shǒu HSK4

to guard

保守 bǎo​shǒu
to guard verb
To guard or keep safe; to protect something from being lost, such as a secret, a city, or a reputation

She can keep a secret.

conservative adjective
Tending to stick to existing habits or traditional institutions and resistant to change

I’m not a very conservative person.

cautious adjective
(Of estimates, predictions, etc.) modest or low-end; not overly optimistic

This is a conservative estimate of the population in the year 2000.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
22.4 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
14.3 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 4

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