old variant of 寧|宁[ning4]
abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1] / abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nan2 jing1] / surname Ning

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 列宁, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Vladimir Lenin (宁) enters engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) when Nefertiti (ni) is preparing dinner. Nefertiti thinks Lenin wants to start a revolution, so she immediately tries to throw him out, but Lenin tells her he wants to remain peaceful (宁) and learn how to cook. As sign of humility he even takes his graduation cap (宀) and nails (丁) it to the wall.
peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 列宁, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Vladimir Lenin (宁) enters engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) when Nefertiti (ni) is preparing dinner. Nefertiti thinks Lenin wants to start a revolution, so she immediately tries to throw him out, but Lenin tells her he wants to remain peaceful (宁) and learn how to cook. As sign of humility he even takes his graduation cap (宀) and nails (丁) it to the wall.
would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. [ning2]
variant of 寧|宁[ning2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 列宁, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Vladimir Lenin (宁) enters engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) when Nefertiti (ni) is preparing dinner. Nefertiti thinks Lenin wants to start a revolution, so she immediately tries to throw him out, but Lenin tells her he wants to remain peaceful (宁) and learn how to cook. As sign of humility he even takes his graduation cap (宀) and nails (丁) it to the wall.
to store / to stand / space between the door and the entrance screen

宁 character breakdown

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

= + : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).

Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.

Characters with 宁 as component

mistake / to twist

= + : Nefertiti (ni) just twisted (拧) Lenin (宁) around with a toy claw (扌) to go in the other direction in the engine ((e)ng3), but she doesn't know if it was a mistake (拧).
stubborn

= + : Nefertiti (ni) wants Lenin (宁) to use engine's men's bathroom ((e)ng4), but Lenin is so stubborn (拧) to insist on using the women's bathroom and threatens Nefertiti with a toy claw (扌).
to pinch / wring

= + : Lenin (宁) is pinching (拧) Nefertiti's (ni) ass with a toy claw (扌) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).
to store / to save / stockpile / Taiwan pr. [zhu3]
Boehmeria nivea / Chinese grass
to stand for a long time / to wait / to look forward to / to accumulate
(used as a bound form in 薴烯|苧烯[ning2 xi1], limonene) / tangled / in disarray
fierce-looking
ramie (Boehmeria nivea)
variant of 佇|伫[zhu4] / to stand for a long time
to stand for a long time (variant of 佇|伫[zhu4])
to enjoin
wisdom
five-month-old lamb
see 耵聹|耵聍, earwax / cerumen

Words with 宁

preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils
to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom)
Browning, US firearm brand
Ningde, prefecture-level city in Fujian
Jingning county in Pingliang 平涼|平凉[Ping2 liang2], Gansu
Jingning county in Pingliang 平涼|平凉[Ping2 liang2], Gansu
Jining district or Zhining raion of Ulaanchab city 烏蘭察布市|乌兰察布市[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4 shi4], Inner Mongolia
Jining district or Zhining raion of Ulaanchab city 烏蘭察布市|乌兰察布市[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4 shi4], Inner Mongolia
lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium

Sentences with 宁

ruò
bù
chú
qù
 
 
lóng
go̅ng
yǒng
yuǎn
bù
dé
a̅n
níng