你 · nǐ
you, second person pronoun
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
you, second person pronoun
- Mandarin
- nǐ
- Cantonese
- nei5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 你 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4F60
- Radical
- 人 · 9
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 你
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
Sentence context · 9 matches
我一点都不怕你。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #393879 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #393877 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CK
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
你有冇打火機呀？
Source, contributors & licenses
Cantonese: Tatoeba #364850 · Original contributor: nickyeow · Text editors: nickyeow · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
English: Tatoeba #29830 · Original contributor: ichivivi20 · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- nriX · 乃里 反切 · #1310
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 9442 · nriX = 止開三上之娘
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- nǐ
- kCantonese
- nei5
- kDefinition
- you, second person pronoun
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 9.5
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:782
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- nǐ 10137.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- nǐ 0828.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- nǐ 265.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- nǐ(10944)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- nǐ粵nei5