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保安

bǎo ān

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

保安 (bǎo ān) means "to ensure public security; to ensure safety (for workers engaged in production); public security". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 保安 means

1. to ensure public security
2. to ensure safety (for workers engaged in production)
3. public security
4. security guard

Other readings

保安 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Bǎo ānBonan ethnic group

The characters in 保安

• 保bǎoto defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure…
• 安ān(bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health

Example sentences

• 叫保安来！
  Jiào bǎo'ān lái!
  Call security!
• 别麻烦保安了。
  Bié máfan bǎo'ān le.
  Don't bother calling security.
• 请帮我叫宾馆保安。
  Qǐng bāng wǒ jiào bīnguǎn bǎo'ān.
  Please get me hotel security.

Words starting with 保安

• 保安人员bǎo ān rén yuánsecurity personnel; member of police force
• 保安团bǎo ān tuánpeace keeping group
• 保安部队bǎo ān bù duìsecurity forces
• 保安族Bǎo ān zúBonan ethnic group

Words containing 保安

• 积石山保安族东乡族撒拉族自治县Jī shí shān Bǎo ān zú Dōng xiāng zú Sā lā zú Zì zhì xiànJishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County, in Linxia Hui Autonomous…

Sounds the same

Read bǎo ān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 宝安see 宝安区

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bǎo ān correctly.
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