nèn
pronoun

Meanings

  1. 1 such
  2. 2 so
  3. 3 that (literary/dialect)
  4. 4 that way

Examples

Tā zǎ nèn lìhài?
How come he's so good?
Nǐ nèn zǎo jiù qǐchuáng le.
You got up that early.
Nèn bān xīnkǔ, bùrú xiē yi xiē.
Working so hard, you'd better take a rest.

Tips

register
is literary (found in Song-era ci poetry like ) and survives today in Henan / Central Plains dialect, where it also serves as a second-person plural 'you all'. In standard Mandarin writing it feels archaic.
usage
Read nèn for the 'such / so' meaning; old texts also use the reading nín as a variant of . Dialect speakers often stack it: (that big), (that much).

Stroke Order

nèn