Safe in Chinese
safe · HSK 3
安全
- 安 safe
- 全 whole
晚上一个人回家不安全。 It's not safe to go home alone at night.
Other ways to say safe
More words with 安 or 全
How do you say safe in Chinese?
Safe in Chinese is 安全 (ān quán). You can also say 安 (ān), 放心 (fàng xīn), 保险 (bǎo xiǎn).
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.