How to Say ‘Hi’ in Traditional Chinese
你好
nǐ hǎo
[nee how]
🇹🇼 In Taiwan: [你好] is perfectly polite, but in a café in Taiwan people often skip a greeting and go straight to the order, or use [哈囉] with a more casual feel.
Phrase Breakdown
你
nǐ
[nee]
you
A common singular pronoun meaning "you." It is one of the two characters in the greeting 你好.
你好，請問你要牛奶還是燕麥奶？
Hello, may I ask whether you want milk or oat milk?
好
hǎo
[how]
good
Means "good" and is the second character in 你好, a standard greeting meaning "hello."
你好，今天的無糖拿鐵很好喝。
Hello, today's sugar-free latte is very tasty.
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