宁 — Chinese character
宁
níng
calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer
- Pinyin
- níng
- Radical
- 40 ⼧ (Roof)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 宀 丁
- Formation
- pictophonetic — roof; meaning component 宀; sound component 丁
- Traditional
- 寧
Common words with 宁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宁愿 (寧願) | nìng yuàn | would rather ... (than ...) |
| 宁可 (寧可) | nìng kě | preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...) |
| 宁静 (寧靜) | níng jìng | tranquil; tranquility |
| 安宁 (安寧) | ān níng | peaceful; tranquil |
| 宁肯 (寧肯) | nìng kěn | would rather...; it would be better... |
| 丁宁 (丁寧) | dīng níng | variant of 叮咛 (dīng níng) |
| 毋宁 (毋寧) | wú nìng | not as good as; would rather |
| 奎宁 (奎寧) | kuí níng | quinine (loanword) |
| 心神不宁 (心神不寧) | xīn shén bù níng | to feel ill at ease |
| 单宁 (單寧) | dān níng | (loanword) tannin |
| 丹宁 (丹寧) | dān níng | (loanword) denim; tannin |
| 息事宁人 (息事寧人) | xī shì níng rén | to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom) |
English words written with 宁
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.