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安平

An Ping
ān píng
peace and safety — tranquility · Peaceful and fair
平安,安宁祥和 · 平安、平和、公正
95.5Name score
土Elements
Theme: virtue · classic

What each character carries 逐字小传

Not a dictionary entry: what the character has meant in Chinese names, with the original line it comes from. Every quotation below is matched character-for-character against a versioned corpus shipped with this site. Where a page names a character's origin, that line is our own paraphrase of the standard dictionaries — it is not a quotation, and it carries no book title for that reason.

安ān · B
tier B

安定;安放。

To settle — a person, a house, a state.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

修己以安人 In that order

修己以安人。

Cultivate yourself in order to settle others.

论语 · 宪问篇 · our translation
Three steps in a fixed order: oneself, then others, then everyone. The order cannot be reversed. 子路问君子,孔子答:修己以敬,修己以安人,修己以安百姓。顺序不能倒——先修自己,再安别人。
安人安定安之安民泰安
In a name

Yourself first, others after — in that order.

「安」是先修自己,再安别人。

平píng · B
tier B

平坦;安定;公平。

Level — and from level, settled.

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天下平 Settled, not conquered

人人亲其亲、长其长而天下平。

When everyone loves their own parents and respects their own elders, the world is at peace.

孟子 · 離婁上 · our translation
Not pacified by force: peace as what appears when people look after their own. 孟子说的「平」不是被打平,是各人把自己的亲长照顾好之后自然出现的状态。名字用「平」,取的是这个。
平正太平平之平川泰平
In a name

Settled rather than suppressed.

「平」是安顿出来的,不是压出来的。

引文校验:2/2 条在语料库中逐字命中(论语 · 孟子 · 大学 · 中庸 · 诗经 · 楚辞 · 全唐诗)。 没有可靠原典的字,我们宁可写「没有」。

How it sounds 怎么念

Mandarin is tonal: the same letters said on a different pitch are a different word. The line below is the pitch you actually travel while saying the name.

ānT1 · píngT2
ānpíng
Tonesān high and flat, píng rising
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  • Every syllable has a close English equivalent — nothing here is hard to say.

Is it a real name? 有多真

We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.

The pair 「平」 appears in 447 real names
The corpus describes how many people are actually called this. It is never used to judge whether a name is good.

How this score is built 评分怎么来的

Five dimensions, each scored independently. Every bar below is a real computed value — the same rule set that generated the candidate list, not a separate "premium" model.

Meaning & imagery30.0/30
Sound22.9/25
Naturalness19.7/20
Name + surname12.9/15
Writing10.0/10

How people will actually call you 别人会怎么叫你

A Chinese name is almost never used in full. In daily life it gets a prefix, a suffix, or is cut to the given name alone — and which one you get tells you how close the person thinks they are to you.

安平Full name. Documents, a first introduction, anyone who is not yet a friend.
小安 / 老安Surname with a size prefix — 小 (little) for someone younger or junior, 老 (old) for a colleague who is senior. This is how a Chinese office usually separates two people with the same surname.
安哥 / 安姐Surname + ‘brother’/‘sister’. Warm without being intimate — a shopkeeper, a neighbour, or a colleague a few years older than you.
平Given name on its own. Family and close friends. An elder using just this is affectionate, not curt.

Patterns, not rules: what you are called depends on your age, the relationship, and the region. In the south you will also hear 阿 + given name between friends.

FAQ 常见问题

How do I say 安平?
ān píng. Tones: ān high and flat, píng rising.
What does it mean?
安 — peace and safety — tranquility; 平 — Peaceful and fair
Is it a real, usable name?
The pair "平" appears in 447 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.
Read together

To settle, and then the look of a thing that has settled.

安是让人定下来,平是定下来之后的样子。

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