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Mythic Mandarin

你 (nǐ): meaning and stroke order

你 (nǐ) means you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您).

你

Simplified
你
Traditional
你, 妳
Pinyin
nǐ

Stroke order of 你

你

  • nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])
  • nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 妳

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 你

  1. nǐ
    • you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])
  2. nǐ Traditional 妳
    • you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)

Radical and structure

你
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 尔 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 你

你 in our stories

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  • “我叫安娜。你是中国人吗？”

    wǒ jiào Ānnà nǐ shì Zhōngguórén ma

    "My name is Anna. Are you Chinese?"

    From the story A new friend HSK 1

  • 服务员说：“你想吃什么？”

    fúwùyuán shuō nǐ xiǎng chī shénme

    The waiter says, "What would you like to eat?"

    From the story At the restaurant HSK 1

  • 一个女孩说：“你会写汉字吗？”

    yí gè nǚhái shuō nǐ huì xiě Hànzì ma

    A girl says, "Can you write Chinese characters?"

    From the story The first day at school HSK 1

Where you learn it

你 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 你

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).