你我

Mandarin · pinyin nǐ wǒ

Meanings

  1. you and I
  2. everyone
  3. all of us (in society)
  4. we (people in general)
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你
nǐ · you, second person pronoun
我
wǒ · our, us, i, me, my, we
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3–3 · ni3 wo3

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  1. you and I; we (including both the speaker and the person(s) addressed)

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