您
nín
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A respectful 'you' for one person: used to someone older, a teacher, a customer or a stranger. It goes wherever 你 can go, as in 您好 'hello' and 您的 'your'. For several listeners the plural stays 你们.
Ngôi thứ hai số ít dạng kính trọng, dùng khi nói với người lớn tuổi, thầy cô, khách hàng hay người lạ. Dùng ở mọi vị trí như 你: 您好 (chào ông, chào bà), 您的 (của ông, của bà). Nói với nhiều người thì vẫn dùng 你们.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · 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 “您” mean?
A respectful 'you' for one person: used to someone older, a teacher, a customer or a stranger. It goes wherever 你 can go, as in 您好 'hello' and 您的 'your'. For several listeners the plural stays 你们.
Is “您” formal or informal?
您 is generally neutral.