- “"You make my heart feel super happy!"”
- ―Kai-lan
Kai-Lan (Chinese: 凱蘭 Kǎi lán/Kelland) is the main protagonist and hostess of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. She is voiced by Chinese-American actress Jade Lianna-Peters.
Kai-Lan is a playful, adventurous young girl with a big heart. She has black hair that she wears in two space buns with red flowers. Kai-Lan speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese.
Biography[]
She is a 6-year-old Chinese American girl and is the granddaughter of Ye Ye. Her best friends are Tolee, Hoho, Lulu and Rintoo. She is adorable, sweet, affectionate, friendly, playful, adventurous, cute, bright, very beautiful, very intelligent and has a big heart. She speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese, and she is eager to share her language, her culture, and her playtime with her animal friends and members of the audience at home. Kai-Lan is a natural leader but she is also thoughtful and caring with a gift for helping her friends when they really need her. Her favorite animals are dinosaurs and in her music group, she plays her tambourine.
Appearance[]
Kai-Lan has light skin, brown eyes and has black hair in odango buns. She normally wears a sleeveless blue shirt with two hearts, a jade necklace, orange shorts with darker orange stripes and red trainers with white soles, Her head is so big, just like the other guys. She also has two red flowers on her hair. In the original design, she wears a long-sleeved yellow shirt and shorts. As a princess, Kai-Lan is letting her hair down and wearing a golden headpiece and a violet hanfu.
Behind the scenes[]
- When you see a new kaleidoscope promo for Ni Hao Kai-Lan on Nick Jr, you may see a portion of Kai-Lan's orange shorts with stripes along with a red shoe as part of a picture of Kai-Lan going up, twirls around and drops down under a video clip of Kai-Lan in a kaleidoscope-styled nature. She more Chinese quotes in each episode she was saying in mandarin Said the shows' fans.
- While her surname Chow wasn't revealed in the show, it was actually revealed on the official Nickelodeon website and likely on a 2006 trademark called "Grampa Chow".
- She and Lulu are the only characters to not get mad in the series.
- Over the course of the series, her parents have never been seen or mentioned.