安 ān
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adjective
calm / still / quiet / peaceful
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Emotion
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; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 4; NCCED '安' 2; Unihan '安') -
verb
to calm / to pacify
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '安' v 1; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 4; NCCED '安' 3) -
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; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 96). -
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; NCCED '安' 1) -
verb
comfortable / happy
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '安' 1c; Mathews 1931 '安' p. 4; NCCED '安' 4) -
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; NCCED '安' 6) -
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; NCCED '安' 7) -
verb
to be content
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '安' 1c; NCCED '安' 5) -
verb
to cherish
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '安' 8) -
verb
to bestow / to confer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '安' 9) -
bound form
an
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Used in monastic names to indicate Parthian descent (Kroll 2015 '安' 5) -
noun
amphetamine
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Medicine
Notes: Abbreviation for 安非他命 (Guoyu '安' n 2) -
noun
ampere
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
Notes: Abbreviation for 安培 (Guoyu '安' n 3) -
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) -
verb
to reside / to live at
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 居 (Guoyu '安' v 4) -
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) -
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) -
conjunction
thus / so / therefore
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 乃 or 于是 (Guoyu '安' conjunction) -
adverb
deliberately
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5) -
adverb
naturally
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Mathews 1931 '安' p. 5) -
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
- 安息年 Sabbatical year
- 安吉尔(安吉爾) angel
- 平平安安 peaceful
- 乾安 Qian'an county
- 安稳(安穩) stable ; a calm manner
- 安德肋 Andrew
- 安睡 to sleep / to sleep peacefully
- 偷安 to shirk responsibility / thoughtless pleasure-seeking
- 毫安 milliampere
- 安息香科 Styracaceae, tree family including silver-bell, snowdrop and benzoin
- 安于(安於) to feel contented with
- 黛安娜 Diana
- 任安 Ren An
- 安和乐利(安和樂利) stability, peace, joy, and prosperity
- 安家 to settle down / to set up a home / to marry ; to harmoniously manage a household ; to plan family matters
- 安敢 how dare [you]?
- 安可 encore ; how shall [we]?
- 圣安德列斯断层(聖安德列斯斷層) San Andreas Fault, California
- 安定门(安定門) Andingmen neighborhood
- 安培小时(安培小時) ampere-hour (Ah)
- 安处(安處) to make a home / to settle ; to find a place for / to arrange ; where?
- 坐不安席 to sit but to not be able to relax
- 泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯 Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
- 安几 quiet and composed
Also contained in
龙安区 、 网络安全 、 广安门 、 临安县 、 西安市 、 大安区 、 安义 、 安呾罗缚 、 磐安县 、 安底罗 、 安宁区 、 姚安 、 农安县 、 谢安 、 南安普敦 、 安远县 、 都安瑶族自治县 、 农安 、 成安 、 安提瓜岛 、 安西 、 安乡县 、 安格斯 、 安养 、 建安 、 西安门 、 正安县
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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: 147
- 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: 112
- 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: 100
- 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
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- 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
- 卷一百 表第一 諸王世表一 Volume 100 Tables 1: Princes 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 82
- 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: 80
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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