(Ni hao!) 你好! It means "Hi!", "How do you do?", "Hello!" It is an everyday greeting and is used at any time, on any occasion and by a person of any social status. The reply should also be "你 好! (Ni hao!)".
If you ask how someone is, you turn the greeting into a question by adding the question word ma, you say Ni hao ma. More formal greetings include: Ni zao! A morning greeting. Zao! A morning
Is "你们好" (nǐmen hǎo) in actual use for greeting multiple people at once? I just felt like typing "hello" in Chinese in a chat room (with no Chinese speakers in it but what the hey) Adding the question particle (character) 吗 (ma) turns the statement "you well" 你好 (ni hao) into a question "(are) you well?" (ni hao ma). A few points: Both 你好 (ni hao) and 你好吗? (ni hao ma) are acceptable ways of saying "hello" in Chinese. 你好 (ni hao) is a statement literally meaning "you well/good", a way Greetings: "你好!. (Nǐ hǎo!)" or "你好吗?. (Nǐ hǎo ma)?". 25/12/2013 / #ChineseForBeginnerLearners, #ChineseSentences, #GreetingsNihAOnIhaOma. Please choose the correct answer to fill in the blank. Annie: ___. Zhāng Lì: Wǒ hěn hǎo, xièxie! 张丽: 我很好,谢谢!. Zhang Li: I'm fine, thank you!