In Mandarin Chinese, 您 (Pinyin: nín 🔊) is a polite or formal second-person pronoun that could be used in both singular and plural, like German Sie or Russian Вы. So 您好 (nín hǎo) is a polite way to say “hello”.
As you can see, 您 is a combination of 你 “you” (informal singular) with 心, “heart”. I see a genial, smiling face of a bearded man, whom I may wish to address politely — out of respect — but who wouldn’t mind my 你好 either.
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