呢
ne
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A particle that follows a noun or pronoun to send a question back: 'and you?', 'what about this one?'. 我喝茶，你呢? is 'I'll have tea, and you?'. At the end of a question that has a question word it softens the tone, and at the end of a statement it can show that something is still going on. It has a neutral tone.
Trợ từ đặt sau danh từ hoặc đại từ để hỏi lại, kiểu “còn bạn thì sao?”, mà không cần nhắc lại cả câu hỏi. Ví dụ: 我喝茶，你呢? (tôi uống trà, còn bạn?). Ở cuối câu hỏi đã có từ để hỏi, 呢 làm cho giọng hỏi nhẹ nhàng hơn; ở cuối câu kể, nó cho biết việc vẫn đang diễn ra. Đọc thanh nhẹ.
ParticleRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 呢 = ni · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “呢” mean?
A particle that follows a noun or pronoun to send a question back: 'and you?', 'what about this one?'. 我喝茶，你呢? is 'I'll have tea, and you?'. At the end of a question that has a question word it softens the tone, and at the end of a statement it can show that something is still going on. It has a neutral tone.
Is “呢” formal or informal?
呢 is generally neutral.