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担忧

dān yōu

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 擔憂

担忧 (dān yōu) means "to worry; to be concerned". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 担忧 means

1. to worry
2. to be concerned

The characters in 担忧

• 担dānto undertake; to carry; to shoulder
• 忧yōuto worry; to concern oneself with; worried

Example sentences

• 你为什么为我担忧？
  Nǐ wèishénme wèi wǒ dānyōu?
  Why are you worried about me?
• 你为什幺为我担忧？
  Why are you worried about me?
• 我们为她的安全担忧。
  Wǒmen wèi tā de ānquán dānyōu.
  We are anxious about her safety.
• 别担忧。汤姆要来了。
  Don't worry. Tom will come.
• 担忧只是想象力的误用。
  Dānyōu zhǐ shì xiǎngxiànglì de wùyòng.
  Most of the things you worry about never happen!
• 我们对女儿的健康问题很担忧。
  Wǒmen duì nǚ'ér de jiànkāng wèntí hěn dānyōu.
  We are anxious about our daughter's health.

Words containing 担忧

• 替古人担忧tì gǔ rén dān yōuto fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily…

Sounds the same

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

• 担懮worry; anxiety
• 耽忧variant of 担忧

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