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宁可

nìngkě
adverbHSK 7-9

“Preferably” in Chinese is 宁可 (nìngkě).

Meaning

  • preferably
  • one would prefer to...(or not to...)
  • would rather
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  • (would) be better to
  • (to pick) the lesser of two evils

Example

与其向命运妥协，我宁可自杀。

I would rather kill myself than reconcile myself to my fate.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

nìngHSK 45 strokesabbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]kěHSK 25 strokescan; may; able to; -able

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