宁 寧
宁寧 in English
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How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Small seal script - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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与其让我在他手下干，我宁愿辞职。
I would rather quit than work under him.
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书和朋友应该是宁缺毋滥。
Books and friends should be few but good.
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他宁愿不吃这个。
He'd prefer not to eat that.
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他宁愿星期五去。
He'd prefer to go on Friday.
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你应该宁可用词汇来造句，也不要试着死记硬背。
You should use words to make sentences, rather than try to learn them with rote memorisation.
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加里宁格勒旧称为哥尼斯堡。
Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg.
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奈良是一个宁静而美丽的城市。
Nara is a quiet and beautiful city.
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宁愿做自己而被人讨厌，也不要因为虚假而被人喜欢。
Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you're not.