HSK 3 · Adjectives

安静 ānjìng “quiet” in Chinese

Traditional 安靜

What 安静 means

  1. quiet
  2. peaceful
  3. calm

How to say 安静

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale安ān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale静jìng4th tone, falling

安静 in a sentence

  1. 请安静！孩子们在睡觉。

    Qǐng ānjìng! Háizimen zài shuìjiào.

    Please be quiet! The kids are asleep.

    Sentence #796768 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她安静地坐在钢琴前。

    Tā ānjìng de zuò zài gāngqín qián.

    She sat quietly at the piano.

    Sentence #2364532 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 那是一个安静的夜晚。

    Nà shì yí ge ānjìng de yèwǎn.

    It was a quiet night.

    Sentence #464921 from Tatoeba

How 安静 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 安 (ān) with each of its parts in a different colour
安āncalm; peaceful
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 女woman · nǚ

Memory aidA woman 女 under a roof 宀: safe, peaceful.

The character 静 (jìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
静jìngstill
  • 青blue-green · qīngMeaning part
  • 争to dispute · zhēngSound part

青 hints at the meaning (blue-green); 争 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìng.

How to write 安静

安 6 strokes · 静 14 strokes

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安静 (ānjìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 安静 (ānjìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 安静

Words with 安

安排ānpái · to arrange安全ānquán · safe晚安wǎn'ān · good night安装ānzhuāng · to install不安bù'ān · uneasy平安píng'ān · safe and sound安慰ānwèi · to comfort安置ānzhì · to find a place for安宁ānníng · peaceful安详ānxiáng · serene

Words with 静

冷静lěngjìng · calm平静píngjìng · calm寂静jìjìng · quiet镇静zhènjìng · calm动静dòngjing · sound of movement

More words: Adjectives

绿色lǜsè · green没意思méiyìsi · boring有意思yǒuyìsi · interesting矮ǎi · short差chà · differ from聪明cōngming · intelligent短duǎn · short in length方便fāngbiàn · convenient

FAQs

安静 (ānjìng) means “quiet” or “peaceful”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it ānjìng: ān with a 1st tone, then jìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 安静 is written 安靜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type anjing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 安静 from the suggestions. Typing anjing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
安静 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.