你
nǐ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The pronoun for the person you are talking to: you (one person). It never changes form: as subject or object it is always 你. 'Your' is 你的 and the plural is 你们. To an older person or a customer, use the polite 您 nín.
Đại từ ngôi thứ hai số ít, chỉ người đang nói chuyện với mình: bạn, anh, chị, em, cậu, mày. Tiếng Trung không xưng hô theo tuổi tác hay vai vế như tiếng Việt, nên một chữ 你 dùng được với hầu hết mọi người; muốn tỏ ý kính trọng thì dùng 您 nín. “Của bạn” là 你的, số nhiều là 你们.
PronounRegister: 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 你 = nhĩ · 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 “你” mean?
The pronoun for the person you are talking to: you (one person). It never changes form: as subject or object it is always 你. 'Your' is 你的 and the plural is 你们. To an older person or a customer, use the polite 您 nín.
Is “你” formal or informal?
你 is generally neutral.