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安宁

ān níng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 安寧

安宁 (Ān níng) means "Anning District of Lanzhou City 兰州市, Gansu; Anning City, to the west of Kunming 明, Yunnan; peaceful". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 安宁 means

1. peaceful
2. tranquil
3. calm
4. composed
5. free from worry

Other readings

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

• Ān níngsee {安宁区|Ān níng Qū}; see {安宁市|Ān níng Shì}

The characters in 安宁

• 安ān(bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health
• 宁nìngwould rather; to prefer; how (emphatic)

Example sentences

• 让我们享受这平静和安宁。
  Ràng wǒmen xiǎngshòu zhè píngjìng hé ānníng.
  Let's just enjoy this peace and quiet.
• 你度过了很不安宁的一夜。
  Nǐ dùguò le hěn bù ānníng de yī yè.
  You've had a very restless night.

Words starting with 安宁

• 安宁区Ān níng QūAnning, a district of Lanzhou City 兰州市
• 安宁市Ān níng ShìAnning, a county-level city in Kunming City 昆明市
• 安宁片ān níng piànmeprobamate
• 安宁病房ān níng bìng fánghospice

Where 安宁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · āi–hē (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read ān níng correctly.
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