Radical
Strokes
12
Residual strokes
9
Mandarin
níng nìng
Teochew

Glyph

Radical
Residual strokes
9 strokes
Strokes
12 strokes
Mandarin
níng / nìng

Definitions by reading

lêng5
Mandarin equivalent níng / nìng
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng lêng5 Chaoyang lêng5 Chenghai lêng5 Jieyang lêng5 Raoping lêng5 Shantou lêng5
used as a term of comparison:-rather; it is better; would that
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English meaning

used as a term of comparison:-rather; it is better; would that

GuangyunPhonological reconstruction

1
泥母 四等 開口 青韵 平声 奴丁切
Reconstruction:
Original

說文曰:安也,从宀心在皿上,皿人之食飲器,所以安人也。