Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
No stroke-order animation exists for this character — KanjiVG covers 6,702 kanji, and the rarer forms are not among them.
The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 宁 is filed under 宀 (roof) — radical number 40 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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Japanese names use readings that appear nowhere else in the language. These are 宁's — the reason personal and place names are so hard to read even for native speakers.
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宁 means Calm, Peaceful, Serene, Healthy.
宁 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) ちょ; kun'yomi (native Japanese) たくわ.える、たたず.む.
宁 is written with 5 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
The radical of 宁 is 宀 (roof), radical number 40 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.
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