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What are the meanings and usages of "An" in classical Chinese?
In ancient Chinese and modern Chinese, the complete meaning of "An" is as follows:

1. Calm, stable: ~ fixed. ~ heart. ~ ning. ~ steady. ~ leisure. ~ make a living. ~ bangding country.

2. make calm and stable (mostly emotional): ~ people. ~ comfortable. ~ caress.

It is appropriate to feel satisfied with life and work: heart ~. ~ Take things as they are (treat them as usual if you encounter unsatisfactory situations or abnormal phenomena, and don't care).

4. no danger, no threat: Ping ~. Turn the corner.

5. installation: ~ installation. ~ start a career.

6. Grasp (an idea, mostly bad): What is his heart?

7. Question words, where: ~ Can this be done?

8. Last name.

The only rarely used meaning in modern Chinese is item 7, which is an interrogative word meaning "What? Where? " The meaning of is generally used at the beginning of a sentence.

For example: "Oh, how can I bow and scrape to those high-ranking officials whose sincere faces will never be seen"-Li Bai's "Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream"