宁
níng
calm, peaceful, serene; healthy
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 宀
- HSK
- 4
- Tone
- 2
Other readings: zhù
Traditional form: 寧
Stroke order
Example sentences
我宁愿不说出来。
Wǒ nìng yuàn bù shuō chū lái
I'd rather not say.
Shadow他宁愿不吃这个。
Tā nìng yuàn bù chī zhè ge
He'd prefer not to eat that.
Shadow我不想坐汽车去,宁可走去。
Wǒ bù xiǎng zuò qì chē qù nìng kě zǒu qù
I don't want to go in the car. I would rather walk.
Shadow你度过了很不安宁的一夜。
Nǐ dù guò le hěn bù ān níng de yī yè
You've had a very restless night.
Shadow
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words containing 宁
- 宁静níng jìng 2–4 tranquil; tranquility; serenity
- 宁可nìng kě 4–3 preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- 宁愿nìng yuàn 4–4 would rather ... (than ...)
- 安宁ān níng 1–2 peaceful; tranquil; calm; composed; free from worry
- 宁肯nìng kěn 4–3 would rather...; it would be better...; would prefer