Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
寧
“house”·“food or wine vessel”·“table (?)”
寧 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Yasu.
Meaning & origin
What it means
寧 is built from elements meaning “house” and “food or wine vessel” and “table (?)”.
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寧’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 寧 can be written in the Roman alphabet as YASUSHI. In Japanese usage, 寧 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Yasu.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named 寧
- Zhang NingChinese female badminton playerborn 1975
- Ma NingChinese association football refereeborn 1979
- Gan NingGeneral serving warlord Sun Quan (died c. 220)175–222
- Mao NingChinese politician and diplomatborn 1972
- Wei Ningsport shooterborn 1982
- Tan NingChinese badminton playerborn 2003
- Ma NingChina field hockey playerborn 2000
- Ning LiAmerican physicist1943–2021
- Wang NingChinese People's Liberation Army generalborn 1955
Characters named 寧: Xu Ning (Water Margin character).
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