Read Edit View history 佞 nìng flattery Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 佞 nìng to flatter (bound form) to flatter or toady; to use clever words and smooth talk to gain favor talented (bound form) (literary) talented or capable; used historically in humble first-person terms to mean lacking talent or unworthy to be obsessed with (bound form) (literary) to be overly fond of or obsessed with something, particularly religious worship or collecting books flatterer (bound form) a person who uses sycophancy or smooth talk, such as a sycophant or a treacherous official Frequency Character Written text 4,690th most common 1.31 per million Word Written text 0.301 per million Details Strokes 7 Unicode U+4F5E Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
佞 nìng to flatter (bound form) to flatter or toady; to use clever words and smooth talk to gain favor talented (bound form) (literary) talented or capable; used historically in humble first-person terms to mean lacking talent or unworthy to be obsessed with (bound form) (literary) to be overly fond of or obsessed with something, particularly religious worship or collecting books flatterer (bound form) a person who uses sycophancy or smooth talk, such as a sycophant or a treacherous official