Chinese Character Wiki

甯

níng

peaceful

Components
宀 unknown component

宀  Unknown component

mián

  

roof

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

heart

用 sound component

用  Sound component

yòng

  

use

Evolution

甯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
甯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
甯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

甯  

níng

peaceful

宁 (甯) 

níng

variant of 寧|宁[níng]

Most common words with 甯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

宁愿

better

宁

to prefer

宁可

preferably

宁静

tranquil

安宁

peaceful

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤeŋ

neng

níng

peace

*nˤ[e]ŋ-s

nengH

nìng

(place name in Zuozhuan)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 25.3404% of movies

1359th most common character in movies

1019th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+752F

Shuowen

“甯，所願也。从用，寧省聲。”


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