you

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

尔 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

ěr

  

you

and don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.

Definitions

 

you, second person pronoun; you (informal, as opposed to courteous [nín])

Most common words with 你
Freq.
Word
Meaning

you

你们

you (plural)

你好

hello

去你的

Get along with you!

你死我活

two parties cannot coexist

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9840% of movies

3rd most common character in movies

32nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F60


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