HSK 6 · Adjectives

安详 ānxiáng “serene” in Chinese

Traditional 安詳

What 安详 means

  1. serene
  2. composed

How to say 安详

  • 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详xiáng2nd tone, rising

安详 in a sentence

  1. 她在睡眠中安详地去世了。

    Tā zài shuìmián zhōng ānxiáng de qùshì le.

    She passed away peacefully in her sleep.

    Sentence #334598 from Tatoeba

How 安详 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 详 (xiáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
详xiángdetailed
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 羊sheep · yángSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 羊 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiáng.

How to write 安详

安 6 strokes · 详 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 安详

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安宁ānníng · peaceful

Words with 详

详细xiángxì · detailed

More words: Adjectives

自愿zìyuàn · voluntary综合zōnghé · comprehensive暧昧àimèi · ambiguous安宁ānníng · peaceful凹凸āotū · uneven霸道bàdào · overbearing保守bǎoshǒu · conservative卑鄙bēibǐ · despicable

FAQs

安详 (ānxiáng) means “serene” or “composed”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it ānxiáng: ān with a 1st tone, then xiáng 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, 安详 is written 安詳. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type anxiang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 安详 from the suggestions. Typing anxiang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
安详 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.