担心 (dān xīn): meaning and stroke order

担心 in our stories

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• 袁媛有点儿担心：我们是不是慢慢变成陌生人了？

  Yuán Yuán yǒudiǎnr dānxīn wǒmen shì bu shì mànmàn biànchéng mòshēngrén le

  Yuan Yuan began to worry: are we slowly turning into strangers?

  From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

• 盘古担心天和地会重新合在一起，就头顶着天，脚踩着地，用自己的身体把它们撑开。

  Pángǔ dānxīn tiān hé dì huì chóngxīn hé zài yìqǐ jiù tóu dǐng zhe tiān jiǎo cǎi zhe dì yòng zìjǐ de shēntǐ bǎ tāmen chēng kāi

  Afraid that heaven and earth would close up again, Pangu held up the sky with his head and pressed down the earth with his feet, keeping them apart with his own body.

  From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• “我女儿可聪明了，在上海工作，很忙，”他骄傲地说，“你别告诉她我在这儿，她会担心的。”

  wǒ nǚ'ér kě cōngming le zài Shànghǎi gōngzuò hěn máng tā jiāo'ào de shuō nǐ bié gàosu tā wǒ zài zhèr tā huì dānxīn de

  "My daughter is very clever. She works in Shanghai, she's very busy," he said proudly. "Don't tell her I'm here; she'd worry."

  From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8