Ni hao

[Tina]

chinese for hi or hello. if you add ma to the end, it means how are you doing today?

[Sonia]

ni hao (second tone first tone when used together) means Hello in mandarin chinese. When the question word ma (no tone) is added at the end of it, it simply means How are you? The literal meaning of ni hao is you good. Putting something before the word good makes it hello to that paticular person or group of people. ni is simply you, so you would that that to only one person. With the ma, the literal translation is you good?

[Sonia]

Hello in Chinese. Most commonly used by non-Chinese people to show off the only chinese phrase they know to a Chinese they just met, who can speak fluent English ironically.

[Justin Bieber]

Ni hao has become a phrase to say derrogatorily to chinese gold farmers (a player whose sole purpose is to collect in-game currency to sell to other players for real-world money) in MMO games such as World of Warcraft or Everquest. Usually used snidely or snarkily.

[Sommer]

This is a [Mandarin] Chinese phrase typically used in [greeting]. The term literally means [you good] (ni means you and hao means good), but is used as a hello or hi.

If a ma is added to the end of the phrase, its meaning is changed to something like Are you well? This is also a phrase used in greeting others, as its polite.

[Dave Paprocki]

A racist comment that is used by white people (e.g. [white Australians]), to address any Asian, cuz apparently every asian is Chinese. Often used in a colonised country (e.g. Australia, America). The phrase is often used by arrogant, think Im so cool, thought I being [nice] but is really dumb, white people; they often like to not use their brain and assume peoples [ethnicity]

[Tanya Shivari]

Something [white people] say [whenever] they see an [Asian].