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担心

dān xīn 1–1

anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
担 · 心
Syllables
2
dān xīn
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 277

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 担dān8 strokesHSK 3 traditional 擔carry, bear, undertake
  • 心xīn4 strokesHSK 2heart; mind, intelligence; soul; 5th lunar mansion, determinative star α Scorpii (Antares)

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 不要担心！

    Bù yào dān xīn

    Don't worry!

  • 我担心他。

    Wǒ dān xīn tā

    I am worried about him.

  • 他们担心。

    Tā men dān xīn

    They were worried.

  • 我有点担心。

    Wǒ yǒu diǎn dān xīn

    I'm a little bit concerned.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 担心. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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