保
/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•to raise; to rear · to keep; to maintain · to protect; to safeguard; to defend
Etimoloji
In the oracle script, this character was an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 人 (“person”) + 子 (“child”) – a person carrying a child on his back; to carry (a child) > to protect. See also 好. In early bronze inscriptions, 爪 (“hand”) was added to the person to emphasize that the person was carrying the child. This was later simplified into one or two strokes. The current form has two. From…