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您

nín

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character

您 (nín) means "you (courteous)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 您 means

1. you (courteous, as opposed to informal {你|nǐ})

Example sentences

• 您呢？
  How about you?
• 您好！
  Hello!
• 您赢！
  You've won!
• 给您。
  Here you are.
• 您好。
  Greetings.
• 您在家吗
  Nín zài jiā ma
  Are you home?

Words starting with 您

• 您好nín hǎohello (polite)

Characters that look like 您

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 悠yōulong or drawn out; remote in time or space; leisurely
• 窍qiàohole; opening; orifice (of the human body)
• 凿záo(bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic…
• 筵yánbamboo mat for sitting
• 雳lìused in 霹雳
• 窈yǎo(literary) deep; profound; dim (variant of 杳

Sounds the same

Read nín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 恁old variant of 您

Where 您 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of School and Work (HSK 2), HSK 2 Characters · Set 15 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nín correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.