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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]

寧 U+F95F, 寧
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F95F
← 丹
[U+F95E] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 怒 →
[U+F960]
寧 U+F9AA, 寧
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9AA
← 囹
[U+F9A9] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 嶺 →
[U+F9AB]

寧 U+2F86F, 寧
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F86F
← 寘
[U+2F86E] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 寳 →
[U+2F870]

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

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Additional Derived Characters

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 291, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7296
  • Dae Jaweon: page 577, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 949, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5BE7

Chinese

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trad. 寧
simp. 宁*
alternative forms
寍
㝕
𡩋
甯
𡨴
寍
㝕
𡩋
甯
𡨴
寜
寕
 

Glyph origin

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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
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 / 会意): 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 / 形声, OC *neːŋ): phonetic 寍 (OC *neːŋ) + semantic 丂 (“speech (?)”).

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

Etymology 1

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Either related to Burmese ညင်း (nyang:, “soft, gentle, quiet”) or connected to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“heart, mind, brain”) (Schuessler, 2007)

Pronunciation 1

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  • 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 (Hokkien) /liŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /niŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /naiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /leŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /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
Baxter neng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/neŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/neŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/nɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/neŋ/
Wang
Li 		/nieŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/nieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		níng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ning4
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
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寧

  1. peaceful; tranquil; serene; at peace
    心緒不寧／心绪不宁  ―  xīnxù bù níng  ―  restless; uneasy
  2. (literary) to stabilise; to pacify
    息事寧人／息事宁人  ―  xīshìníngrén  ―  to end a dispute or conflict and calm the people down
  3. (obsolete) to mourn for one's deceased parent
  4. (literary, especially of married women) to visit one's parents
  5. Alternative name for 江寧／江宁 (Jiāngníng, “old name for Nanjing”).
    滬寧鐵路／沪宁铁路  ―  hù níng tiělù  ―  Shanghai-Nanjing railway
  6. Alternative name for 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià, “Ningxia”).
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2

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Definitions
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寧

  1. rather; would rather
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) could there be
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) such; like this; so
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) unexpectedly; in spite of everything
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) modal particle
Compounds
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Pronunciation 3

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Definitions
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寧

  1. a surname
Usage notes
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  • Not to be confused with the surname 甯 (Nìng), which was previously also simplified to 宁.

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation borrowed from Mandarin 寧／宁 (níng), matching the pronunciation of Wu 人 (gnin).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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寧

  1. (Northern Wu, especially Shanghainese, neologism) alternative form of 人
    上海寧／上海宁 [Shanghainese]  ―  6zaon-he5-gnin6 [Wugniu]  ―  Shanghainese person

References

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  • 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “宁（安～）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 275.

Japanese

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Shinjitai 寧
Kyūjitai
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寧
&#xF95F;
or
寧+&#xFE00;?
寧󠄀
寧+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
寧󠄃
寧+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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寧

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 寧)

  1. rather
  2. peaceful

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
寧
ねい
Grade: S
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese 寧 (MC neng).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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寧(ねい) • (nei) 

  1. peaceful, gentle
  2. rather

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
寧
やすし
Grade: S
nanori

Nominalization of Classical Japanese adjective 寧(やす)し (yasushi), modern 寧(やす)い (yasui, “calm, peaceful”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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寧(やすし) • (Yasushi) 

  1. a male given name

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
寧
やす
Grade: S
nanori

From the root of adjective 寧(やす)い (yasui, “calm, peaceful”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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寧(やす) • (Yasu) 

  1. a male given name

References

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  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 690 (paper), page 395 (digital)

Korean

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Hanja

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寧 (eumhun 편안할 녕 (pyeonanhal nyeong), word-initial (South Korea) 편안할 영 (pyeonanhal yeong))

  1. hanja form? of 녕/영 (“repose, serenity peace”)
  2. hanja form? of 녕/영 (“peaceful”)

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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寧: Hán Nôm readings: ninh

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Compounds

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