宁
nìngníngzhù HSK4

peaceful, (storage container)

宁 寧 nìng frequency
variants 寕,甯
would rather adverb
would rather; to prefer; would sooner

我宁死也不愿回去！

wǒ nìng sǐ yě bù yuàn huí qu!

I would rather die than go back!

[rhetorical question]
(literary) used in rhetorical questions to mean "how" or "could it be that..."
Ning
a Chinese surname; also used in given names
宁 寧 níng
variants 寕,甯
peaceful adjectivenoun
(bound form) peaceful; tranquil; stable; to pacify
to visit parents
(literary) for a married woman to visit her parents
宁 寧 níng
variant 寕
Nanjing
(bound form) another name for Nanjing city in Jiangsu Province
Ningxia
(bound form) abbreviation for the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
宁 zhù
space between gate and screen
(literary) the space between the front gate and the spirit screen in a traditional courtyard
㝉 宁 zhù
to store
(bound form) to store or collect
to stand
(bound form) to stand upright
entrance space
the space between a door and the entrance screen

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,019th most common 155.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,359th most common 53.9 per million appears in 25% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.44 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
31.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
寧
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+5B81

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)