Anxious in Chinese
anxious · HSK 3
急
孩子还没回家，妈妈急得睡不着。 The child isn't home yet, and Mom is too worried to sleep.
Other ways to say anxious
How do you say anxious in Chinese?
Anxious in Chinese is 急 (jí). You can also say 着急 (zháo jí), 不安 (bù ān), 焦虑 (jiāo lǜ).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.