你好
nǐ hǎo
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Hello — the standard greeting, used at any time of day with one person. To several people say 你们好; to show respect (to an older person, a customer) say 您好 nín hǎo.
Lời chào thông dụng nhất, nghĩa là “xin chào”, dùng vào bất cứ lúc nào trong ngày khi gặp một người. Chào nhiều người thì nói 你们好; muốn tỏ ý kính trọng (với người lớn tuổi, khách hàng) thì nói 您好 nín hǎo.
InterjectionRegister: 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, 好 = hảo · 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 “你好” mean?
Hello — the standard greeting, used at any time of day with one person. To several people say 你们好; to show respect (to an older person, a customer) say 您好 nín hǎo. Literally: you good
Is “你好” formal or informal?
你好 is generally neutral.