寧

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See also: 宁 and 寜
寧 U+5BE7, 寧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BE7
← 實
[U+5BE6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寨 →
[U+5BE8]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

寧 (radical 40, 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十心月弓 (JPBN), four-corner 30201, composition ⿱寍丁)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 291, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7296
  • Dae Jaweon: page 577, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 949, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5BE7

Chinese[edit]

trad. 寧
simp. 宁*
variant forms 寍
㝕
𡩋

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 寧
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
寧-oracle.svg 寧-bronze.svg 寧-seal.svg 寧-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (寧) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
濘 *neːs, *neːŋʔ, *neːŋs
獰 *rnaːŋ
檸 *rnaːŋʔ
儜 *rneːŋ
薴 *rneːŋ
鬡 *rneːŋ
鑏 *rneːŋ
嬣 *rneːŋ
寍 *neːŋ
寗 *neːŋs
甯 *neːŋs
寧 *neːŋ
鸋 *neːŋ, *neːŋs
嚀 *neːŋ
聹 *neːŋ, *neːŋʔ

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 皿 (“food or wine vessel”) + 丂 (“table (?)”) – contentment. The 心 (“heart”) component was added in bronze inscriptions to yield 寧, and the 丂 component was sometimes omitted to yield 寍.

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *neːŋ): phonetic 寍 (OC *neːŋ) + semantic 丂 (“speech (?)”).

Note that the simplified form 宁 (zhù) is also a traditional character on its own.

Pronunciation 1[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 寧
Mandarin Beijing /niŋ³⁵/
Harbin /niŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /niŋ⁴⁵/ 安～
Jinan /ȵiŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /niŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /niŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /niŋ²⁴/
Xining /ȵiə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /niŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ȵĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /ȵiŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /nin²¹³/
Chengdu /nin³¹/
Guiyang /nin²¹/
Kunming /lĩ¹/
Nanjing /lin²⁴/
Hefei /lin⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /niəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ȵiŋ¹³/
Hohhot /nĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiŋ²³/
Suzhou /ȵin¹³/
Hangzhou /ȵin²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /niʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ȵin¹³/
Xiangtan /ȵin¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /nen¹¹/
Taoyuan /nen¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /neŋ²¹/
Nanning /neŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /niŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /liŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /niŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /naiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /leŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /neŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 寧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 奴丁切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/neŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/neŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/nɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/neŋ/
Wang
Li 		/nieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/nieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		níng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		níng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ neng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁeŋ/
English peace

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 寧
Reading # 1/1
No. 9556
Phonetic
component 		寧
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		寧
Old
Chinese 		/*neːŋ/

Definitions[edit]

寧

  1. peaceful; tranquil; serene; at peace
  2. quiet; still; silent
  3. stable; settled; pacified
  4. † to stabilise; to pacify
  5. † to settle down
  6. † to mourn
  7. † (especially of married women) to visit one's parents
  8. † repose; serenity; peace
  9. Alternative name for 江寧／江宁 (Jiāngníng, “old name for Nanjing”).
  10. Alternative name for 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià, “Ningxia”).

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 寧

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

寧

  1. rather; would rather
  2. † could there be
  3. † such; like this; so
  4. † unexpectedly; in spite of everything
  5. † modal particle

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 寧

Pronunciation 3[edit]

Definitions[edit]

寧

  1. A surname​.
Usage notes[edit]
  • Not to be confused with the surname 甯 (Nìng), which was previously also simplified to 宁.

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

寧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. rather

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

寧 • (nyeong)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 녕 (revised: nyeong, McCune–Reischauer: nyŏng, Yale: nyeng)
    • Name (hangeul): 편안할 녕
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Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

寧 (ninh)

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