宁愿 nìngyuàn▶ preferir

Stroke order

宁愿 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 宁 — 5 strokes
• 愿 — 14 strokes

Related words

• 宁肯preferir antes que
• 安宁pacífico; tranquilo
• 心甘情愿de buena gana, voluntariamente
• 宁可preferir
• 愿望deseo, anhelo
• 自愿voluntariamente

宁愿 is pronounced nìngyuàn and means “preferir”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 宁愿 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.