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

• 安眠药(安眠藥) sleeping pill
• 心安理得 to have a clear conscience; to have no qualms about sth
• 捷安特 Giant Manufacturing, Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer
• 印第安人 American Indians
• 安拉 Allah
• 安若泰山 as stable as Taishan
• 行人安全岛(行人安全島) pedestrian refuge; traffic island
• 富国安民(富國安民) to make the country rich and the people at peace
• 安营(安營) to pitch camp; to camp
• 雅利安 Aryan
• 安立甘 Anglican
• 微安 microampere
• 安然无恙(安然無恙) safe and sound; to come out unscathed
• 定安县(定安縣) Ding'an county
• 安能 how can it be possible?
• 安舆(安輿) to take care of aged parents
• 安和乐利(安和樂利) stability, peace, joy, and prosperity
• 平平安安 peaceful
• 安全套 condom
• 安全灯(安全燈) a safety lamp
• 不安席 to not be able to relax at a banquet

Also contained in

吉安县 、 安徽 、 台安县 、 隆安省 、 乐安县 、 安康地区 、 汉安帝 、 第勒尼安海 、 国内安全保卫局 、 兴安运河 、 怀安 、 安顺地区 、 安仁县 、 安省 、 兴安县 、 安源区 、 大安区 、 崇安区 、 农安 、 普安 、 潮安县 、 安塞县 、 圣安多尼堂区 、 安西县 、 淮安 、 乐安 、 靖安县 、 卢比安纳 、 江安县 、 安丘

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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

• 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: 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 女安 (女安) 於女安乎 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 17. 《陽貨》 Yang Huo — 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