你

See also: 妳, 您, 祢, and 儞

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

你 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火 (ONF), four-corner 2729₀ or 2729₂, composition ⿰亻尔)

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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		你
alt. forms		伱 儞 伲 𤙌 汝 Min Nan 伱 儞 伲 𤙌 汝 Min Nan 㚢 Hakka

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nɯʔ): 亻 + 尔

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ ‎(“you”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǐ (ni³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nei⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): ngì / ǹ / ǹg / nì

  (Meixian, Guangdong): ngi² / n²

• Min Nan (POJ): ní / lí / lír / lú
• Wu (Wiktionary): nyi (T3); 'ni (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: nih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nii
    • IPA ^(key): /ni²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nei⁵
    • Yale: néih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nei⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /nei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngì / ǹ / ǹg / nì
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiˇ / nˇ / ngˇ / niˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi² / n² / ng² / ni²
    • IPA: /ɲi¹¹/, /n¹¹/, /ŋ̍¹¹/, /ni¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngì / ǹ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiˇ / nˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi² / n²
    • IPA: /ɲi¹¹/, /n¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ngi² / n²
    • IPA: /ɲi¹¹/, /n̩¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ní
    • Tâi-lô: ní
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nie
    • IPA (Taipei): /ni⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ni⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lú
    • Tâi-lô: lú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: luo
    • IPA (Taipei): /lu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Yilan, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí
    • Tâi-lô: lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /li⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /li⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lír
    • Tâi-lô: lír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɯ⁵⁵⁴/
    • Note: lí/lír/lú - common substitute for 汝.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: nyi (T3); 'ni (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /ȵi²³/, /ʔni³⁴/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	你
Reading #	1/1
No.	2769
Phonetic component	尔
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	伱
Old Chinese	/*nɯʔ/
Notes	爾汝音變

Definitions

你

1. (informal) you (the person spoken to or written to)

   你好  ―  nǐhǎo  ―  hello

   你今天好嗎？ / 你今天好吗？  ―  Nǐ jīntiān hǎo ma?  ―  How are you today?

   我喜歡你。 / 我喜欢你。  ―  Wǒ xǐhuān nǐ.  ―  I like you.

Synonyms

• 您 (nín, “you (polite)”)
• 妳 (nǐ, “you (female)”)

Dialectal synonyms of 你 (“you (singular)”)
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical	Classical	汝、爾
Mandarin	Beijing	你、您
	Jinan	你
	Xi'an	你
	Wuhan	你、你家
	Chengdu	你
	Yangzhou	你
	Hefei	你
Cantonese	Guangzhou	你
	Hong Kong	你
	Taishan	你
	Yangjiang	你
Gan	Nanchang	你
Hakka	Meixian	你
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	你
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	你
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	你
	Dongshi (Dabu)	你
	Taiwanese Raoping	你
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	你
Jin	Taiyuan	你
Min Bei	Jian'ou	你
Min Dong	Fuzhou	汝
Min Nan	Xiamen	汝
	Taipei	汝
	Chaozhou	汝
Wu	Shanghai	儂
	Suzhou	倷
	Wenzhou	你
Xiang	Changsha	你
	Shuangfeng	你

Compounds

• 一場官司一場火，任你好漢沒處躲／一场官司一场火，任你好汉没处躲
• 不是你死，就是我活
• 不是我，便是你
• 不瞞你說／不瞒你说
• 不說話，沒人當你是啞吧／不说话，没人当你是哑吧
• 你三我四
• 你丟我撿／你丢我捡
• 你來我往／你来我往
• 你們／你们 (nǐmen)
• 你儂我儂／你侬我侬
• 你咱
• 你好 (nǐhǎo)
• 你家

• 你家的
• 你我 (nǐwǒ)
• 你推我擠／你推我挤
• 你推我讓／你推我让
• 你有千條妙計，我有一定之規／你有千条妙计，我有一定之规
• 你東我西／你东我西
• 你死我活 (nǐsǐwǒhuó)
• 你爭我奪／你争我夺
• 你生
• 你知我見／你知我见
• 你老
• 你誇我逞／你夸我逞
• 你謙我讓／你谦我让

• 你追我趕／你追我赶
• 你長我短／你长我短
• 天知地知，你知我知
• 有你沒我／有你没我
• 有你的
• 迷你 (mínǐ)
• 迷你型計算機／迷你型计算机
• 迷你玫瑰
• 迷你盆景
• 迷你裙 (mínǐqún)
• 迷你豬／迷你猪
• 迷你電腦／迷你电脑
• 閻王叫你三更死，誰敢留人到五更／阎王叫你三更死，谁敢留人到五更

See also

Standard Chinese personal pronouns
Person		Singular	Plural
1st	—	我 (wǒ)	我們／我们 (wǒmen)
	inclusive		咱們／咱们 (zánmen)
2nd	male/indefinite	你	你們／你们 (nǐmen)
	female	妳／你 (nǐ)	妳們／你们 (nǐmen)
	deity	祢 (nǐ)	祢們／祢们 (nǐmen)
	polite	您 (nín)	你們／你们 (nǐmen) 您們／您们 (nínmen)
3rd	male/indefinite	他 (tā)	他們／他们 (tāmen)
	female	她 (tā)	她們／她们 (tāmen)
	deity	祂 (tā)	祂們／祂们 (tāmen)
	animal	牠／它 (tā)	牠們／它们 (tāmen)
	inanimate	它 (tā)	它們／它们 (tāmen)

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Japanese

Kanji

你

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: に (ni)
• Kan’on: じ (ji)
• Kun: なんじ (nanji), しかり (shikari), その (sono), のみ (nomi)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

你 (nể, né, nẻ, nệ, nễ)

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References

• Nom Foundation