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担心

dān xīn

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 擔心

担心 (dān xīn) means "to worry". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 担心 means

1. anxious
2. worried
3. uneasy
4. to worry
5. to be anxious

The characters in 担心

• 担dānto undertake; to carry; to shoulder
• 心xīnheart; mind; intention

Example sentences

• 别担心。
  Don't worry about it.
• 别担心！
  Don't worry!
• 不要担心。
  Don't worry about it.
• 不要担心！
  Don't worry!
• 别担心了。
  Stop worrying.
• 我担心他。
  I worry about him.

Sounds the same

Read dān xīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 丹心loyal heart; loyalty
• 殚心to devote one's entire mind
• 耽心variant of 担心

Where 担心 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & Illness (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dān xīn correctly.
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