Chinese Character Wiki

佞

nìng

flattery

Kindness 仁 toward a woman 女

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

二 meaning component

二  Meaning component

èr

  

two

女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

Evolution

佞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
佞 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
佞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
佞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

佞  

nìng

flattery; glib; to flatter

Most common words with 佞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

佞

to flatter

奸佞

crafty and fawning

谗佞

a slandering toady

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤiŋ-s

nengH

nìng

clever


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4690th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F5E

Shuowen

“佞，巧讇高材也。从女，信省。”


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