HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Everyday Verbs

按 àn “to press” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 按 means

  1. to press
  2. according to
  3. to push
  4. to leave aside or shelve
  5. to control
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to restrain
  • to keep one’s hand on

How to say 按

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale按àn4th tone, falling

按 in a sentence

  1. 您只要按一下按钮。

    Nín zhǐyào àn yíxià ànniǔ.

    You just need to press the button.

    Sentence #471238 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你按门铃了吗？

    Nǐ àn ménlíng le ma?

    Did you ring the doorbell?

    Sentence #6923208 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他们按小时租车。

    Tāmen àn xiǎoshí zūchē.

    They rent the car by the hour.

    Sentence #13513758 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 按 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 按 (àn) with each of its parts in a different colour
按ànto press
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 安peaceful · ānSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 安 (ān) hints at the sound. Compare it with àn.

How to write 按

按 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 按

Words with 按

按时ànshí · on time按照ànzhào · according to按摩ànmó · massage

More words: Everyday Verbs

无法wúfǎ · to be unable to管guǎn · to manage活huó · to live定dìng · to decide入rù · to enter约yuē · to arrange to meet加入jiārù · to join通tōng · to go through

FAQs

按 (àn) means “to press” or “according to”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it àn: àn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 按 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type an with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 按 from the suggestions. Typing an into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
按 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older 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.