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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

关心

Pronunciation / Transliteration: guānxīn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Care/kɛər/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #250 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他非常关心家人的健康。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.

    "The elderly receive dedicated care at the community center."
As verb
  1. 1

    Feel concern or interest; attach importance to something.

    "She deeply cares about environmental conservation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'caru' or 'cearu', meaning sorrow, anxiety, or grief, originating from Proto-Germanic *karō. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from burdensome mental anxiety to serious attention, safeguarding, and ultimately affection and provision, aligning closely with the German verb 'pflegen'.

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