宁níng
calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer. 5 strokes, radical 宀, first met in HSK 4.
Pinyin níngStrokes 5Radical 宀Band HSK 4Words 1
How to write 宁
Strokes 1–3 write 宀, then strokes 4–5 write 丁.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 宁 · the stroke-order rules
What 宁 is made of
宀 (gài, roof) and 丁 (dīng, male adult).
宀 carries the meaning — roof — and 丁 carries the sound.
Words that use 宁
| 宁静 | tranquil, peaceful 十分安静，没有一点吵闹 夜幕降临，工作室归于宁静。As night fell, the studio settled into tranquility. Lesson 318, 霓裳华彩与艺境探微 · 霓裳艺韵与杏林深衷 · Fashion Aesthetics, Healing Fortitude & Academic Nurture |
Characters that share the sound part 丁
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 宀
All 32 of them, and what the radical means, on the 宀 radical page.