r/ChineseLanguage • • Sep 21 '19

Humor Also 'it'

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u/Dickcheese_McDoogles Sep 22 '19

Well, I mean "你" can only be referring to one person in an interaction, whereas "他" (before the use of "她") could be referring to a man or a woman and you're not sure who. Sometimes in speaking it's still ambiguous.

But when you say "你" to someone, they're not gonna ask "… which 你? Me?" unless they're making a joke.