| 辽宁号 |
Liáo níng Hào |
Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the PLA Navy (commissioned in 2012) |
| 辽 |
Liáo |
short name for Liaoning 辽宁 province / Liao or Khitan dynasty (916-1125) |
| 辽 |
liáo |
(bound form) distant; faraway |
| 辽宁 |
Liáo níng |
see 辽宁省 |
| 宁 |
nìng |
old variant of 宁 |
| 宁 |
Níng |
abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 宁夏回族自治区 / abbr. for Nanjing 南京 / surname Ning |
| 宁 |
níng |
peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc) |
| 宁 |
nìng |
would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. [ning2] |
| 宁 |
níng |
variant of 宁 |
| 号 |
háo |
roar / cry / CL:个 |
| 号 |
hào |
ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people |