你好 (nei5 hou2 | ni3 hao3) : hello; hi; how are you; greetings

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你好

nei5 hou2

ni3 hao3

hello; hi; how are you; greetings

Level: 1 Google Frequency: 2,510,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

你好

This word has been viewed 10185 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by claw on 9th Aug 2004 09:11 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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Characters in this word:

你 nei5 - you
好 hou2 hou3 - good; very; friendly; healthy; ready

2 compounds containing this word:

你好嗎 - How are you?
你好嘢 - an expression of mockery and warning

Showing all 5 examples containing 你好

你好嗎？
How are you?

綠茶對你好有益㗎！粵 ?!
Green tea is very good (healthy) for you!
[the audio actually mispronounced as 綿荼 (which either doesn't exist or really rare)]

你好記性。粵
You have a good memory.

呢啲手板眼見功夫你好快就會學識粵
It will not take long before you learn how to do such simple jobs.

今次你好嘢，不過下次冇咁好彩嘅嘞！粵
You got away this time, but you won't be so lucky next time!

One Cantonese Homophone / Homophone Variant for this word:

您好 nei5 hou2 nin3 hao3 = hello, greetings (formal) 國

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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