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(ān quán dài) - seat belt in Mandarin

ānquándài

Traditional: 安全帶

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Translation

seat belt

Stroke order

Stroke order for 安

Stroke order for 全

Stroke order for 带

Examples

Please fasten your seat belt.

You must always wear a seat belt when driving.

His seat belt is broken.

Children need to wear a seat belt in the car too.

Please check your seat belt before take-off.

安全带 (ānquándài) is a "seat belt". 安全 (ānquán) means "safe, safety" and 带 (dài) here means "belt, strap", so it is literally a "safety belt", the strap that keeps you in place in a car or on a plane.

The verb that goes with it is 系 (jì), "to fasten, to tie": 系安全带 (jì ānquándài), "to fasten your seat belt", is the standard phrase, whether it's a driver's own instruction to a passenger or the announcement you hear before a flight takes off.

Note the pronunciation of 系 (jì) here: as "to fasten", it is read jì, not the more common xì you'll meet in words like 关系 (guānxì), "relationship". Getting the tone and reading right on 系安全带 (jì ānquándài) marks you out as someone who has actually listened to native speech rather than just read the characters.

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This word is part of lesson 95.