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nìng

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nìng
  1. 1.would rather
  2. 2.to prefer
  3. 3.how (emphatic)
  4. 4.Taiwan pr. [níng]
níng
  1. 1.peaceful
  2. 2.to pacify
  3. 3.to visit (one's parents etc)
zhù
  1. 1.to store
  2. 2.to stand
  3. 3.space between the door and the entrance screen
Níng
  1. 1.abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 宁夏回族自治区[Níng xià Huí zú Zì zhì qū]
  2. 2.abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nán jīng]
  3. 3.surname Ning
nìng
  1. 1.old variant of 宁[nìng]
níng
  1. 1.variant of 宁[níng]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.space between the door and the entrance screen, or between the two side houses in the main entrance
  2. 2.Original form of 貯 (“to store; to accumulate; to gather”).
  3. 3.Original form of 佇 (“to stand for a long time”).

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形).

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Components

宁宀丁

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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