nóng
pronoun #9,709

Meanings

  1. 1 you (Shanghainese/Wu dialect)
  2. 2 I; me (archaic/literary)

Characters

Contains (person radical) + (farmer) as phonetic component.

Examples

Nóng hǎo!
Hello! (Shanghainese)
Nóng shì Shànghǎirén ma?
Are you from Shanghai? (Shanghainese)

Tips

register
is the Shanghainese word for 'you' — equivalent to Mandarin (nǐ). You'll hear it constantly on the streets of Shanghai but almost never in standard Mandarin. (nóng hǎo) is 'hello' in Shanghainese.
history
In classical Chinese, meant 'I/me.' The famous Tang poem line 马来 uses the related character — and the poet Li Bai wrote meaning 'I.' The meaning shifted to 'you' in Wu dialect.

Stroke Order

nóng