宁可 Traditional (Taiwan): 寧可 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. nìngkě ㄋㄧㄥˋ ㄎㄜˇ preferably one would prefer to...(or not to...) would rather be better to would the lesser of two evils to pick Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT