What 寧 means
It is a Taiwanese encoded variant of 寧, “peaceful, settled.”
It is Taiwan CNS 6-5C22, kept for round-trip conversion with CNS 11643-1992. The 寧 character family appears in oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions; this codepoint came much later.
An older form, 寍, carried the “peaceful, settled” sense; 寧 first expressed a wish, then borrowed that sense and came to mean “would rather.”
Why does 寧 become 寧?
Unicode normalization turns 寧 into 寧.
Normalization makes equivalent text consistent. Here it removes the exact codepoint distinction; keep 寧 only when that source identity matters.
Who writes 寧
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Questions people ask
1Why is 寧 a box on Windows?
As of 2026, Windows’ default fonts omit this glyph. A font with coverage is needed; a box means the font lacks it.
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How to type or find 寧
- Search it as
- cns 6-5c22 · cns 11643 · 2f86f · 寧 · ning2 · ning4
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
寧\2F86F寧 in HTML source.Codes and encoding1 code points
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