甯
nìngníng

peaceful

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
甯 níng
peaceful
(bound form) peaceful; calm; tranquil; often used as a literary verb meaning to bring peace or tranquility
to visit parents
(variant of 宁 níng) for a married woman to return to her family home to visit her parents
Nanjing
(bound form) abbreviation for Nanjing, derived from its former name Jiangning
甯 nìng
rather
(bound form) would rather; would sooner; indicates preference for one thing over another, often in the context of a sacrifice or difficult choice
[rhetorical question]
(literary) used in rhetorical questions to mean "how can it be that...?" or "could it be that...?"

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,935th most common 0.351 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
4.44 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
31.9 per million

Details
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+752F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)