What does "ni Hao" in Chinese really mean?

ni hao means hello or hi

ni hao MA means how are you? !..

its used to mean how. if you were to translate it word by word, ni means you and hao means good. so technically its saying 'you good' to people. but everyone uses it for hello... and ni and hao together means ni hao.

ni hao ma? means how are you. technically it would be you good? the ma makes it a question, so its asking someone how they are

In Chinese, it actually does mean Hello or Hi.

In English, if you really translate it literary it means "you good"

So I think that is how your mixing it up, in Chinese its a greeting, but a direct translation it means "you good"

And to say how are you, you just add a ma to ni hao, since ma is a question particle, which makes ni hao a question instead of a greeting.

你好 + 嗎 = 你好嗎？ (How are you)

nǐ hǎo ma= nǐ hǎoma

Hello.

It's Hello in chinese.

Initially, no you need not single out the Chinese, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you had better as a matter a fact go through with it once it has been chosen

hello in mandarin chinese

it is the traditional way of saying hello in ancient china.

The Boss

It literally means 'you good.'

you good

kevin is right