HSK 6 · Adjectives

安宁 ānníng “peaceful” in Chinese

Traditional 安寧

What 安宁 means

  1. peaceful
  2. calm
  3. at ease
  4. tranquil
  5. composed
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • free from worry

How to say 安宁

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale宁níng2nd tone, rising

安宁 in a sentence

  1. 让我们享受这平静和安宁。

    Ràng wǒmen xiǎngshòu zhè píngjìng hé ānníng.

    Let’s enjoy this peace and quiet.

    Sentence #5574854 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你度过了很不安宁的一夜。

    Nǐ dùguò le hěn bù ānníng de yí yè.

    You’ve had a very restless night.

    Sentence #3059603 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 安宁 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 宁 (nìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
宁níngpeaceful
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 丁part of the characterSound part

How to write 安宁

安 6 strokes · 宁 5 strokes

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

Words related to 安宁

Words with 安

安静ānjìng · quiet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安详ānxiáng · serene

Words with 宁

宁可nìngkě · preferably宁肯nìngkěn · would rather宁愿nìngyuàn · would rather

More words: Adjectives

自由zìyóu · freedom自愿zìyuàn · voluntary综合zōnghé · comprehensive暧昧àimèi · ambiguous安详ānxiáng · serene凹凸āotū · uneven霸道bàdào · overbearing保守bǎoshǒu · conservative

FAQs

安宁 (ānníng) means “peaceful” or “calm”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it ānníng: ān with a 1st tone, then níng with a 2nd 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, 安宁 is written 安寧. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type anning with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 安宁 from the suggestions. Typing anning into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
安宁 is an HSK 6 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.