Kai-Lan (Chinese: 凯兰/Kelland) is the main character of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. She is voiced by Chinese-American actress Jade Lianna-Peters. She is a 6-year-old Chinese-American girl and is the granddaughter of Ye Ye. Her best friends are Tolee, Hoho, Lulu and Rintoo. She is sweet, affectionate, friendly, playful, adventurous, bright, very intelligent, and has a big heart. She speaks both English A couple of answers mention 大家好 ‘dàjiā hăo’ or ‘Hello everyone’. I like this one, it is more chatty and doesn’t presuppose any relationship with the addressees. The characters literally mean 'big family'. – “Wo,” “ni,” “hao,” “laoshi,” “bu” - all these are pinyin representations of Chinese characters and sounds. Pinyin is not simply a convenience for us Westerners. Schoolchildren who learn Chinese begin by learning pinyin, and this is because Chinese itself has no alphabetic representation of phonetic sounds. a beer. 一杯咖啡. yī bēi kā fēi. a cup of coffee. 一瓶水. yī píng shuǐ. a bottle of water. Show 61 Comments. (PDF Available) Here we’d like to introduce basic Chinese words and phrases which you may need in your next Chinese language survival and social situation. It's also pronounced with different directions in tone. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but when you say "ni", the tone in your voice gets lower, while when you say "hao", it goes down then up. If you say it the wrong way it could come out to some really weird literal translations. For example, "ma" can mean horse, a question mark, mom Online Pinyin Input Method is a free online Chinese typing tool using Mandarin/Putonghua pinyin codes. We empower you to type Chinese online anytime, anywhere with any computer for free! Enter Pinyin code within the white main input area. Choose the character/word among the list by the corresponding number. If more choices are available, use And another very casual and common greeting is Nǐ hǎo ma - 你好吗. This is a question asking others' recent condition, also expressing friendly. Say Goodbye in Chinese. To say goodbye in Mandarin Chinese you say zài jiàn - 再见, both of these two characters are pronounced in forth tone. Zài means again, once more, and jiàn means see Ni hao on the other hand is a chinese greeting. Saying Ni hao to an east asian means you are either assuming they are chinese or assuming that they know chinese based on how they look. Since in the second case, you are judging someone based on their physical appearance and racial characteristics , it is seen as being racist. One Cantonese Homophone / Homophone Variant for this word: 您 好 nei5 hou2 nin3 hao3 = hello, greetings (formal) 國. Legend. 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 nimen definition at Chinese.Yabla.com, a free online dictionary with English, Mandarin Chinese, Pinyin, Strokes & Audio. Look it up now! qkdsK.