新
xīn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
New: just made, bought or begun, or met for the first time. Before a noun it needs no 的: 新衣服 'new clothes', 新朋友 'a new friend', 新年 'the New Year'. As a predicate it takes 很 like other adjectives: 这个手机很新 'this phone is quite new'.
Mới: vừa làm ra, vừa mua, vừa bắt đầu, hoặc lần đầu gặp. Đứng ngay trước danh từ, không cần 的, ngược với tiếng Việt nơi “mới” đứng sau: 新衣服 (quần áo mới), 新朋友 (bạn mới), 新年 (năm mới).
AdjectiveRegister: 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 “新” mean?
New: just made, bought or begun, or met for the first time. Before a noun it needs no 的: 新衣服 'new clothes', 新朋友 'a new friend', 新年 'the New Year'. As a predicate it takes 很 like other adjectives: 这个手机很新 'this phone is quite new'.
Is “新” formal or informal?
新 is generally neutral.