Reading
영 (yeong) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 령 (ryeong), 영 (yeong)
repose, serenity, peace; peaceful
편안할 녕pyeonanhal nyeong
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 편안할 (pyeonanhal) is the Korean for repose, and 녕 (nyeong) is the reading. Say 편안할 녕 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- ⼧ 40
- Beyond radical
- 11
- Mandarin
- níng
- Japanese on
- nei
- Japanese kun
- yasui
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 녕, but South Korean spelling writes 영 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
영
寧安 영안 yeongan
Elsewhere in the word
녕
丁寧 정녕 jeongnyeong安寧 안녕 annyeong西寧 시닝 sining
Vocabulary
Words that use 寧
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
certainly, for sure. 정말로
Character by character male adult + repose
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.