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

Additional Derived Characters

trad.
simp. *
alternative forms 𡩋𡨴𡩋𡨴

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | ------------------------ | | | *neːs, *neːŋʔ, *neːŋs | | | *rnaːŋ | | | *rnaːŋʔ | | | *rneːŋ | | | *rneːŋ | | | *rneːŋ | | | *rneːŋ | | | *rneːŋ | | | *neːŋ | | | *neːŋs | | | *neːŋs | | | *neːŋ | | | *neːŋ, *neːŋs | | | *neːŋ | | | *neːŋ, *neːŋʔ |

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

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

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

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




BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) níng
MiddleChinese neng
OldChinese /*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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9556
Phoneticcomponent
Rimegroup
Rimesubdivision 0
CorrespondingMC rime
OldChinese /*neːŋ/

  1. peaceful; tranquil; serene; at peace
    心緒心绪xīnxù bù níng ― restless; uneasy
  2. (literary) to stabilise; to pacify
    息事息事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”).
    鐵路铁路níng tiělù ― Shanghai-Nanjing railway
  6. Alternative name for 寧夏宁夏 (Níngxià, “Ningxia”).

  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

  1. a surname

Pronunciation borrowed from Mandarin (níng), matching the pronunciation of Wu (gnin).


  1. (Northern Wu, especially Shanghainese, neologism) alternative form of
    上海上海 [Shanghainese] ― 6zaon-he5-gnin6 [Wugniu] ― Shanghainese person
Shinjitai
Kyūjitai[1] 寧寧or寧+︀?
寧󠄀寧+󠄀?(Adobe-Japan1)
寧󠄃寧+󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi)(Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. rather
  2. peaceful
Kanji in this term
ねいGrade: S
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese (MC neng).

寧(ねい) (nei)

  1. peaceful, gentle
  2. rather
Kanji in this term
やすしGrade: S
nanori

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

寧(やすし) (Yasushi)

  1. a male given name
Kanji in this term
やすGrade: S
nanori

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

寧(やす) (Yasu)

  1. a male given name

  2. ^ 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)

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

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

寧: Hán Nôm readings: ninh

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