你

你 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火 (ONF), four-corner 2729₀ or 2729₂, composition ⿰亻尔 or ⿰亻尓)

• 𪡇, 您

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 100, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 471
• Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 137, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4F60
• Unihan data for U+2F804

Historical forms of the character 你
Transcribed ancient scripts L14036 L14037 L14038 L14039
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nɯʔ) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 尔 (OC *njelʔ). Alternatively, Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 人 (“person”) + 尔 (“you”)

Colloquial form of 爾 (OC *njelʔ, “you”) attested since the Tang dynasty. Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).

你

1. you (the person spoken to or written to)

   你好  ―  nǐ hǎo  ―  hello

   你今天晚上有空嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
   你今天晚上有空吗？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ jīntiān wǎnshàng yǒukòng ma? [Pinyin]

   Are you free this evening?

   我喜歡你。／我喜欢你。  ―  Wǒ xǐhuān nǐ.  ―  I like you.

In traditional Chinese, 你 may be used to specifically refer to a male person, while 妳 can be used for a female person. In simplified Chinese, only 你 is standard.

Contraction of 你嘅 (ngi2 gê4, “your”).

你

1. your

• “你”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Southern Min

• “Entry #2881”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 儞)

1. Extended shinjitai form of 儞: you

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)
• Kun: なんじ (nanji, 你)^{←なんぢ (nandi, 你, historical)}; しかり (shikari, 你り); その (sono, 你の); のみ (nomi, 你)

This character is not used in modern Japanese. It may appear as a 略字 (ryakuji, “abbreviated character”) for 爾, itself only used in historical texts and not used in modern Japanese.

你 (eum 니 (ni))

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你: Hán Việt readings: nhĩ, nễ
你: Nôm readings: né, nể, nẻ, nệ

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