Quote Originally Posted by Malador View Post
ä¿æŠ¤ means bÇo hù, which has numerous meanings, but they relate to protection in one way or another. Conservation, Patronage, Shelter and ward are a few of the meanings.
Quote Originally Posted by scbubba View Post
Did some investigation over lunch using the Chinese hanzi characters instead of kanji.
Looks like these characters: ä¿æŠ¤
I think these translate to (respectively):
ä¿ - protect, safeguard, defend, care
护 - protect, guard, defend, shelter

Here's my source info:
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindic...qchi=%E4%BF%9D
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindic...qchi=%E6%8A%A4

Edit: looks like I was a little late and Malador beat me to it....
How the heck are y'all typing those characters?