宁 寧
可 可
- preferably
- one would prefer to...(or not to...)
- would rather
- (would) be better to
- (to pick) the lesser of two evils
Examples
我宁可死,也不想看见你哭。
我不想坐汽车去,宁可走去。
与其向命运妥协,我宁可自杀。
你应该宁可用词汇来造句,也不要试着死记硬背。
俗話說:寧可玉碎,不能瓦全;可俗話又說:留得青山在,不怕沒柴燒!
Info
- Wiktionary: 宁可
- MDBG: 宁可
- Examples with 宁可 on Tatoeba
- Percentile: 81 (higher is more common)
- Tags: HSK5