寕 nìngníng repose Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 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 Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 4.44 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 31.9 per million Details Strokes 12 Unicode U+5BD5 Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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 Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions
