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你好
níhǎo
(after tone sandhi)
Main
English Definitionhello; hi
Simplified Script你好
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyinnǐhǎo
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		níhǎo
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄋㄧˇ ㄏㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping)nei5hou2
Part of Speech(习惯用语) idiomatic expression
Word Decomposition
你nǐyou (informal, as opposed to courteous 您)
好hǎogood; well; proper; good to; easy to; very; so; (suffix indicating completion or readiness); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello

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Words With Same Head Word    
你们nǐmenyou (plural)
你死我活nǐ sǐ wǒ huólit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist
你来我往nǐ lái wǒ wǎngwith enough association or interaction
你追我赶nǐ zhuī wǒ gǎnfriendly one-upmanship; to try to emulate
你争我夺nǐ zhēng wǒ duólit. you fight, I snatch (idiom); to compete fiercely offering no quarter; fierce rivalry; tug-of-war
Words With Same Tail Word    
略好èhǎoslightly better
最好zuìhǎobest; (you) had better (do what we suggest)
只好zhǐhǎowithout any better option; to have to; to be forced to
还好háihǎonot bad; tolerable; fortunately
正好zhènghǎojust (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
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