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How to write 您 (nín, “you”)

您 (nín), an HSK 1 character, means “you”. It is a character whose parts combine into its meaning. On its own it is an HSK 1 word, and it forms 您好 (“hello (polite)”). Japanese reads it ji, “honorific for "you"”.

Pinyin
nín
Strokes
11
HSK
1
Radical
心 (“heart”)

Stroke by stroke

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11

As a top-bottom character it splits into 你 (“you”), strokes 1–7; 心 (“heart”, the radical), strokes 8–11, written the top first.

  1. top leftdown and left
  2. top leftdownwards
  3. topdown and left
  4. toprightwards → down and left
  5. topdownwards → leftwards
  6. centerdown and left
  7. rightdown and right
  8. bottom leftdownwards
  9. bottom leftdown and right → rightwards → up and left
  10. centerdown and right
  11. rightdown and right

Names of the strokes

Where 您 comes from

You 你 said with affection 心

Trace it

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Pinyin and meaning

PinyinMeaningsTraditionalIn words
nín
second tone		you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 (nǐ))—您好
HSK 2025 syllabus
level 1
2021 standard
level 1
HSK 2.0
in a level 2 word
Words with it
2 in CC-CEDICT

Words with 您

WordPinyinMeaning
您nínyou (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 (nǐ)) HSK 1
您好nínhǎohello (polite)

HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).

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