您 (nín): meaning and stroke order
您 (nín) means you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你).
您
- Simplified
- 您
- Traditional
- 您 (same form)
- Pinyin
- nín
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Stroke order of 您
您
- nín you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
- 11 strokes
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Meaning of 您
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nín
- you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
Radical and structure
- 您
- Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 11 strokes · 你 on top, 心 below
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.
您 in our stories
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“对不起，您订的是下个星期五。”
duìbuqǐ nín dìng de shì xià gè xīngqīwǔ
"I'm sorry, you booked for next Friday."
From the story Next Friday HSK 2
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要是以前，邓强一定会跟她争几句；可是这次，他只是点点头，说：“谢谢，明天您再来尝尝。”
yàoshi yǐqián Dèng Qiáng yídìng huì gēn tā zhēng jǐ jù kěshì zhè cì tā zhǐshì diǎn diǎn tóu shuō xièxie míngtiān nín zài lái chángchang
In the old days Deng Qiang would certainly have argued. This time he just nodded: "Thank you. Come and try it again tomorrow."
From the story A second chance HSK 5
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她问：“现在大家鞋子坏了都直接扔，您是不是觉得很失落？”
tā wèn xiànzài dàjiā xiézi huài le dōu zhíjiē rēng nín shì bu shì juéde hěn shīluò
She asked, "These days people just throw broken shoes away. Don't you feel down about it?"
From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6
Stories using 您
- Next Friday HSK 2
- A second chance HSK 5
- Old Du on the corner HSK 6
- Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6
- The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).