寧U+5BE714 STROKES
Entry·pron. níng
ㄋㄧㄥˊ
“peaceful; to pacify; to calm down; to prefer; would rather; how (emphatic); surname Ning; abbr. for Ningxia or Nanjing”
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- 寧靜ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄥˋtranquil; calm and peaceful; serenity; quiet and undisturbed state
- 寧可ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄎㄜˇwould rather; prefer to; choose to do something even if not ideal; the lesser of two evils.
- 安寧ㄢ ㄋㄧㄥˊpeaceful; tranquil; calm; free from worry; (Taiwan, archaic or dialectal) winter
- 寧願ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄩㄢˋwould rather; prefer to choose one option over another, especially when neither is ideal; willingly accept a less desirable alternative.
- 遼寧ㄌㄧㄠˊ ㄋㄧㄥˊNortheastern mainland Chinese province bordering North Korea; provincial capital Shenyang
- 寧波ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄛNingbo; major port city in Zhejiang province, China
- 吳音寧ㄨˊ ㄧㄣ ㄋㄧㄥˊTaiwan agricultural activist and writer; served as secretary-general of Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation, a politically controversial appointment
- 康寧ㄎㄤ ㄋㄧㄥˊhealthy and peaceful; free from illness and unrest
- 寧夏ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋNingxia; an autonomous region in northwestern China
- 毋寧ㄨˊ ㄋㄧㄥˊwould rather; prefer to; typically used in negative constructions like "would rather die than lack freedom"
- 列寧ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄋㄧㄥˊVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870–1924); Russian communist revolutionary and political theorist; leader of the 1917 October Revolution; founder of the Soviet state; developer of Marxist theory known as Leninism
- 遼寧省ㄌㄧㄠˊ ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥˇprovince in northeast China; capital Shenyang; major heavy industry base with steel and chemicals; bordered by the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea
- 寧寧ㄋㄧㄥˊ ㄋㄧㄥˊrepeatedly; frequently; an affectionate nickname or given name
- 南寧ㄋㄢˊ ㄋㄧㄥˊcapital city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China
- 心神不寧ㄒㄧㄣ ㄕㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄥˊmentally restless; unsettled and uneasy in mind; unable to concentrate
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