再见
zài jiàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 再見
Goodbye, see you again — the standard thing to say when parting. Put a time word in place of 再 and you get other farewells: 明天见 'see you tomorrow', 一会儿见 'see you in a while'.
Lời chào khi chia tay: tạm biệt, hẹn gặp lại. Thay 再 bằng một từ chỉ thời gian là có những lời chào khác: 明天见 (mai gặp lại nhé), 一会儿见 (lát nữa gặp lại).
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 ↗ · 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 “再见” mean?
Goodbye, see you again — the standard thing to say when parting. Put a time word in place of 再 and you get other farewells: 明天见 'see you tomorrow', 一会儿见 'see you in a while'. Literally: again see
Is “再见” formal or informal?
再见 is generally neutral.