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

quinine (loanword)
Downing Street (London)
Xianning, prefecture-level city in Hubei
Shouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian
Shouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian
Daning county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lin2 fen2], Shanxi
Daning county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lin2 fen2], Shanxi
Tianning district of Changzhou city 常州市[Chang2 zhou1 shi4], Jiangsu
Tianning district of Changzhou city 常州市[Chang2 zhou1 shi4], Jiangsu
tonic water / quinine water
Weining Yi, Hui and Miao autonomous county in Bijie prefecture 畢節地區|毕节地区[Bi4 jie2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
Weining Yi, Hui and Miao autonomous county in Bijie prefecture 畢節地區|毕节地区[Bi4 jie2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
Anning District of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市[Lan2 zhou1 Shi4], Gansu
Zhouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian
Zhouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian
Xianning, prefecture-level city in Hubei

Sentences with 宁

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