你

See also: 妳, 您, 祢, and 儞

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 亻 + 尔

Han character

你 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火 (ONF), four-corner 2729₂, composition ⿰亻尔)

1. second person pronoun: you

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 100, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 471
• Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 137, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4F60

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Cantonese

Hanzi

你 (Jyutping nei5, Yale nei5)

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Hakka

Hanzi

你 (POJ ní (ni²), nyi5, ni (ni¹), Guangdong ni³, ngi², ngia¹, ng² [Meixian], ni³, ngi², ni¹ [Hailu, Siyan], li¹ [Bao'an], li³ [Dongguan], ni³ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim n2, ngi2, ni1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

你

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: じ (ji), に (ni)
• Kun: なんじ (nanji)

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Korean

Hanja

你 (ni) (hangeul 니, revised ni, McCune-Reischauer ni)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
你

Pronunciation

Mandarin (Standard Chinese, Beijing) Pinyin nǐ Zhuyin ㄋㄧˇ IPA (key) /ni²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Audio (file)

Hanzi

你 (Pinyin nǐ (ni3), Wade-Giles ni³)

Pronoun

你 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin nǐ)

1. (informal) you

Synonyms

• 您 you (polite)
• 妳 you (for female)
• 儞 you (archaic)

Compounds

• 你好
• 你来我往
• 你们
• 你死我活
• 你我
• 你争我夺
• 你追我赶

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Min Nan

Hanzi

你

Pronoun

你 (traditional and simplified, POJ lí (li²))

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Vietnamese

Han character

你 (nể, né, nẻ, nệ, nễ)

References

• Nom Foundation