安 ān

1. ān adjective calm; still; quiet; peaceful
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Synonymous with 靜 in this sense. For example, 长治久安 'long order and long peace'. Etymology from Shuo Wen: 安：靜也。 (CCI p. 37; CC-CEDICT '長治久安'; Guoyu '長治久安'; Guoyu '安' adj; Kroll 2015 '安' 1b, p. 2; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 4; NCCED '安' 2; Unihan '安')
2. ān verb to calm; to pacify
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '安' v 1; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 4; NCCED '安' 3)
3. ān pronoun where
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: An interrogative pronoun in Literary Chinese used to mark a locative object, indentical in use to 焉 (Guoyu '安' pronoun 1; Kroll 2015 '安' 4, p. 2; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 96).
4. ān adjective safe; secure
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 稳定 or 安全 (Guoyu '安' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '安' 1a, p. 2; NCCED '安' 1)
5. ān verb comfortable; happy
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '安' 1c, p. 2; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 4; NCCED '安' 4)
6. ān verb to find a place for
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 安 is synonymous with 容身 in this sense (Kroll 2015 '安' 2, p. 2; NCCED '安' 6)
7. ān verb to install; to fix; to fit
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 安装 (Guoyu '安' v 2; Kroll 2015 '安' 2, p. 2; NCCED '安' 7)
8. ān verb to be content
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '安' 1c, p. 2; NCCED '安' 5)
9. ān verb to cherish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '安' 8)
10. ān verb to bestow; to confer
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '安' 9)
11. ān noun amphetamine
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Medicine
    Notes: Abbreviation for 安非他命 (Guoyu '安' n 2)
12. ān noun ampere
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: Abbreviation for 安培 (Guoyu '安' n 3)
13. ān verb to add; to submit
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 加上; for example, 安罪名 'to add a criminal charge' (Guoyu '安' v 3)
14. ān verb to reside; to live at
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 居 (Guoyu '安' v 4)
15. ān verb to be used to; to be familiar with
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 习惯 or 熟悉 (Guoyu '安' v 5)
16. ān pronoun how; why
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 如何 (Guoyu '安' pronoun 2; Mathews 1931 '安' p.5)
17. ān conjunction thus; so; therefore
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 乃 or 于是 (Guoyu '安' conjunction)
18. ān adverb deliberately
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5)
19. ān adverb naturally
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5)
20. ān foreign an
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Used to represent foreign sounds, such as 安培 Ampere (Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5)

Contained in

• 安全阀(安全閥) a safety valve
• 不安其室 to be discontent with one's home [after marriage]
• 安闲自得(安閑自得) feeling comfortably at ease
• 慰安妇(慰安婦) comfort woman
• 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志(燕雀安知鴻鵠之志) can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan?
• 安上 to fix in place; to install
• 泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯 Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
• 安非他命 amphetamine
• 安全措施 safety feature; security measure
• 安分养福(安分養福) contentment nurtures happiness
• 安眠药(安眠藥) sleeping pill
• 塞巴斯蒂安 Sebastian (name)
• 公安机关(公安機關) public security bureau
• 安慰剂(安慰劑) placebo
• 安全带(安全帶) seat belt; safety belt
• 戴安娜 Diana
• 枕席难安(枕席難安) even in bed, not at rest
• 安德烈 Andre (person name)
• 安全掣 emergency stop
• 富国安民(富國安民) to make the country rich and the people at peace
• 天安门开了(天安門開了) the barn door is open
• 知命安身 to know one's fate and submit to it

Also contained in

宁安 、 美国总统国家安全事务助理 、 新安县 、 东安县 、 安阳市 、 安图县 、 安定乡 、 谢安 、 怀安县 、 安⻏ 、 吉安乡 、 信息安全 、 安大略湖 、 长安大学 、 诏安 、 海安 、 戴安娜王妃 、 定安 、 翔安 、 潘安 、 冥安 、 李安 、 北安 、 长安令 、 安居区 、 资安 、 安史之乱 、 隆安 、 瑞安市

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Truncated for common words

• 卷一百三十七 志第九十 樂十二 Volume 137 Treatises 90: Music 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 144
• 卷三百二十七 列傳第八十六 王安石子:雱 附:唐坰 王安禮 王安國 Volume 327 Biographies 86: Wang Anshi and son: Pang, relative: Tang Jiong, Wang Anli, Wang Anguo History of Song 宋史 — count: 140
• 卷一百三十三 志第八十六 樂八 Volume 133 Treatises 86: Music 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 111
• 卷一百三十二 志第八十五 樂七 Volume 132 Treatises 85: Music 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 102
• 卷一百三十四 志第八十七 樂九 Volume 134 Treatises 87: Music 9 History of Song 宋史 — count: 99
• 卷一百 表第一 諸王世表一 Volume 100 Tables 1: Princes 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 95
• 卷八 列傳第二: 杜僧明 周文育 侯安都 Volume 8: Du Sengming; Zhou Wenyu; Hou Andu Book of Chen 陳書 — count: 88
• 卷六十六　列傳第五十六 杜僧明 周文育 侯瑱 侯安都 歐陽頠 黃法𣰰 淳于量 章昭達 吳明徹 Volume 66 Biographies 56: Du Sengming, Zhou Wenyu, Hou Zhen, Hou Andou, Ouyang Wei, Huang Fa, Chun Yuliang, Zhang Zhaoda, Wu Mingche History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 88
• 卷七十九 列傳第四十九 謝尚 謝安 Volume 79 Biographies 49: Xie Shang; Xie An Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 86
• 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 81

Collocations

• 安用 (安用) 將安用之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 6
• 不能安 (不能安) 猶不能安其室 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶风‧凱風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Kai Feng — count: 6
• 国安 (國安) 彼國安而天下安 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《鄉飲酒義》 The Meaning of the Drinking Festivity in the Districts — count: 5
• 少安 (少安) 可以少安 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 安将乐 (安將樂) 將安將樂 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧谷風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Gu Feng — count: 4
• 安百姓 (安百姓) 在今爾安百姓 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 呂刑 Zhou Shu - Marquis of Lu on Punishments — count: 4
• 安天下 (安天下) 文王一怒而安天下之民 — Mencius 孟子, 梁惠王下 King Hui of Liang II — count: 3
• 今日安 (今日安) 今日安否何如 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《文王世子》King Wen as Son and Heir — count: 3
• 王安 (王安) 而後王安之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 音安 (音安) 治世之音安以樂 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 3