How to Say “I miss you” in Thai
คิดถึง
khít-thɨ̌ng
I miss you
ค่ะ and ครับ are polite particles — they depend on the speaker's gender, not the listener's.
When to use it
คิด (khít) is "to think," ถึง (thǔng) is "of/about/reaching." คิดถึง alone implies the listener — Thais drop subject and object freely. Adding the person: คิดถึงคุณ (khít-thǔng-khun) is "I miss you." A warm, natural phrase in Thai messages and farewells.
Why you've seen it spelled differently
You may have seen คิดถึง written as: khit theung, kit tung, khid thung.
There is no single standard for writing Thai in the Roman alphabet — phrasebooks, road signs, and tourist guides each follow a different system, and many just invent their own spellings. The romanization on this page uses a consistent IPA-based system that marks all five tones and distinguishes short from long vowels. The same word always gets the same spelling. Paste any Thai to see it romanized →
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