佞 — Chinese character
佞
nìng
flattery; glib
- Pinyin
- nìng
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 亻 二 女
- Formation
- ideographic — Kindness 仁 toward a woman 女
- Japanese
- 佞 as a kanji
Common words with 佞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奸佞 | jiān nìng | crafty and fawning |
| 不佞 | bù nìng | without eloquence; untalented |
| 谗佞 (讒佞) | chán nìng | to defame one person while flattering another; a slandering toady |
佞 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 10 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 7
- Analects 5.4
- Analects 6.14
- Analects 11.24
- Analects 14.34
- Analects 15.10
- Analects 16.4
- Mencius 7B.37
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.