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Mythic Mandarin

宁愿 (nìng yuàn): meaning and stroke order

宁愿 (nìng yuàn) means would rather ... (than ...).

宁愿

Simplified
宁愿
Traditional
寧願
Pinyin
nìng yuàn

Stroke order of 宁愿

宁

  • zhù to store; to stand
  • nìng old variant of 寧|宁[ning4]
  • Níng abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]; abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nan2 jing1]
  • 5 strokes
  • Simplified form: 㝉

Stroke by stroke

愿

  • yuàn honest and prudent; variant of 願|愿[yuan4]
  • yuàn (bound form) wish; hope; desire; to be willing
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 願

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 宁愿

  1. nìng yuàn Traditional 寧願
    • would rather ... (than ...)

Radicals of the characters

宁
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 5 strokes · 宀 on top, 丁 below
愿
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 14 strokes · built from 原 and 心

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).