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宁肯
nìng​kěn

would rather

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
宁肯 (寧肯) nìng​kěn
would rather conjunction
would rather; it would be better; to prefer one option over another (often used in the pattern 宁肯 nìng​kěn...也不 yě​bù...)

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.888 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)