寧, 宁, and 㝉. Oh yeah, and 甯
Another confusing simplification.
寧 starts out bad, with two different pronunciations, nìng (rather / to prefer) and
níng (peaceful), with the latter more common in place names.
The simplified form of 寧 is 宁. Not too bad, just drop a couple of strokes, and the new part (丁) doesn't sound that different from 宁 (dīng vs nìng/níng), so you got that phonetic help going for you.
Weirdly enough, 宁 is also a traditional character, although I think very rare, pronounced zhù. For whatever reason, according to MDBG, the simplified form is 㝉! As if 丁 isn't simple enough.....
And to round out the fun, there appears to be another character 甯, also pronounced níng and meaning peaceful, with the simplified form of 宁. I assumed 甯 was some obscure variant of 寧, but it actually gets over 15 million hits on google.....
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