鞍 (ān): (bound form) saddle
鞍 (ān) is a Chinese character meaning “(bound form) saddle.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 革 (semantic) and 安 (phonetic). It ranks #3307 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 鞍 leather. Its radical form 革 (leather) appears in many related characters such as 鞋 (xié, shoe), 革 (gé, animal hide), 靶 (bǎ, target).
Definitions
- (bound form) saddle
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马鞍noun | mǎ ān | saddle |
| 鞍马noun | ān mǎ | pommel horse (gymnastics) |
| 鞍前马后 | ān qián mǎ hòu | to follow everywhere |
| 鞍子noun | ān zi | saddle |
| 马鞍山市 | mǎ ān shān shì | Ma'anshan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省 |
| 马鞍山 | mǎ ān shān | see 馬鞍山市|马鞍山市 |
| 鞍山市 | ān shān shì | Anshan, prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省 |
| 鞍马劳顿phrase | ān mǎ láo dùn | travel-worn |
| 鞍点 | ān diǎn | saddle point (math.), a critical point of a function of several variables that is neither a maximum nor a minimum |
| 鞍山proper-noun | ān shān | see 鞍山市 |
| 鞍韂 | ān chàn | a saddle with a saddle blanket |
| 鞍鞯 | ān jiān | (literary) a saddle with a saddle blanket |
鞍 appears in 12 compound words: 75 as the first character, 8 as the last, and 17 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 鞍 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这里不仅离南京市中心不远,还毗邻常州、镇江与安徽马鞍山,短途游客源丰富。
zhè lǐ bù jǐn lí nán jīng shì zhōng xīn bù yuǎn , hái pí lín cháng zhōu , zhèn jiāng yǔ ān huī mǎ ān shān , duǎn tú yóu kè yuán fēng fù .
Not only is this area not far from downtown Nanjing, but it’s also close to Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and Ma’anshan in Anhui Province, making it a popular destination for day-trippers.
模型越强,越需要一副好鞍 有时候,一匹马奔跑得越猛越快,想要驾驭的难度也随之加大。
mó xíng yuè qiáng , yuè xū yào yī fù hǎo ān yǒu shí hòu , yī pǐ mǎ bēn pǎo dé yuè měng yuè kuài , xiǎng yào jià yù de nán dù yě suí zhī jiā dà .
The more powerful the model, the more it needs a good saddle. Sometimes, the harder and faster a horse runs, the harder it is to control.
第二届徽青赛马鞍山队主教练姚文武坦言。
dì èr jiè huī qīng sài mǎ ān shān duì zhǔ jiào liàn yáo wén wǔ tǎn yán .
Yao Wenwu, head coach of the Ma'anshan team at the 2nd Huqing Competition, admitted.
队员冯天行说,鞍钢、山东这些传统强队整体素质都很强,“我们还在努力追赶”。
duì yuán féng tiān xíng shuō , ān gāng , shān dōng zhè xiē chuán tǒng qiáng duì zhěng tǐ sù zhì dōu hěn qiáng , wǒ men hái zài nǔ lì zhuī gǎn .
Team member Feng Tianxing said that traditional powerhouses like Ansteel and Shandong are very strong overall, adding, “We’re still working hard to catch up.”
马鞍山市消防救援局秀山特勤站指导员 宋雄弢: 首先这种双绞线里面的导丝是比较细的。
mǎ ān shān shì xiāo fáng jiù yuán jú xiù shān tè qín zhàn zhǐ dǎo yuán sòng xióng 弢 : shǒu xiān zhè zhǒng shuāng jiǎo xiàn lǐ miàn de dǎo sī shì bǐ jiào xì de .
Song Xiongtao, Instructor at the Xiushan Special Operations Station of the Ma'anshan Municipal Fire and Rescue Bureau: First of all, the conductors inside this twisted-pair cable are relatively thin.
Character Family
革 Radical Family — Characters sharing the leather radical
Homophones — Characters pronounced ān
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