呢 (ne / ní) means (question particle), Wollen cloth. Below are 18 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
我说：“我很好，你 呢 ？”
wǒ shuō:" wǒ hěnhǎo, nǐ ne / ní?"
I said, "I'm fine, and you?"
Graded reader · HSK 1 · A Phone Call
他笑了笑说：“你觉得 呢 ？”
tā xiào le / liǎo / liào xiào shuō:" nǐ juéde ne / ní?"
He smiled and said, "What do you think?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
她总是先问：“你觉得 呢 ？”
tā zǒngshì xiān wèn:" nǐ juéde ne / ní?"
She always asks first, "What do you think?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
回到家，妈妈看了看，说：“茶 呢 ？”
huídào jiā, māma kànle kàn / kān, shuō:" chá ne / ní?"
When I got home mum looked and said, "Where's the tea?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
妈妈也来了。她说：“我怎么会忘 呢 ？”
māma yě lái le / liǎo / liào. tā shuō:" wǒ zěnme huì wàng ne / ní?"
Mum came too. She said, "How could I forget?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
From the travel phrasebook
如果量翻倍 呢 ？
Rúguǒ liàng fānbèi ne?
What if we double the volume?
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
From the grammar library
他不来，你 呢 ？
Tā bù lái, nǐ ne?
He's not coming — what about you?
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 吗 and 呢 questions
你在做什么 呢 ？
Nǐ zài zuò shénme ne?
What are you doing?
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 在 — location and "-ing"
Questions about 呢
How is 呢 used in a sentence?
This page shows 18 sentences using 呢 (ne / ní, "(question particle), Wollen cloth"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 呢 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 呢 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 呢 an HSK word?
Yes — 呢 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 呢?
The dictionary page for 呢 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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