"to prefer to" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
慭憖	yìn	(literary) to wish / to prefer to / (literary) to incur damage or loss

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
宁可寧可	nìng kě	preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils	syn
喜好	xǐ hào	to like / fond of / to prefer / to love / one's tastes / preference	syn
偏爱偏愛	piān ài	to be partial towards sth / to favor / to prefer / preference / favorite	syn
偏向	piān xiàng	partial towards sth / to prefer / to incline / erroneous tendencies (Leftist or Revisionist deviation)	syn
宁肯寧肯	nìng kěn	would rather... / it would be better... / would prefer	syn
比较喜欢比較喜歡	bǐ jiào xǐ huān	to prefer
倾向于傾向於	qīng xiàng yú	to incline to / to prefer / to be prone to
宁寧	nìng	would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. [ning2]	syn
宁缺毋滥寧缺毋濫	nìng quē wú làn	better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom) / would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option
偏宠偏寵	piān chǒng	to favor / to prefer / to show favoritism
吊瓶族	diào píng zú	"infusion clan", patients who prefer medication by drip rather than orally or by injection etc
宁左勿右寧左勿右	nìng zuǒ wù yòu	(of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution)
重文轻武重文輕武	zhòng wén qīng wǔ	to value letters and belittle arms (idiom) / to stress civil matters and neglect the military / to prefer the pen to the sword
宁做鸡头，不做凤尾寧做雞頭，不做鳳尾	nìng zuò jī tóu , bù zuò fèng wěi	lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom) / fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond
尬意	gà yì	(Tw) to like / to prefer

The four tones