IDENTITY
呢neparticle (neutral tone)
HSK 1Top 60
CORE MEANING
particle (neutral tone)
- Part of speech
- particle
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.particle for follow-up questionsHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰口尼
- mouth; asking
- gives the sound ne
USAGE
Common words
你呢nǐ neand you
谁呢shéi newho then
Graded examples
他在家吗？他呢？Tā zài jiā ma? Tā ne?HSK2
Is he home? What about him?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 泥
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) softening the sound of 尼 — the gentle question particle ne.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #60
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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