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Ni Hao, Kai-Lan is an American animated television series produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It began as a series of three interstitial shorts on Nick Jr. called Downward Doghouse. The first full episode was initially set to premiere on October 22, 2007 on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States, but was delayed to February 7, 2008, to coincide with Chinese New Year. Ni Hao, Kai-Lan is based on the childhood of series creator Karen Chau, who grew up in a bicultural Chinese-American household. "Ni hao" (你好 nǐ hǎo) means "Hello" in Mandarin, and Kai-Lan (凯兰 kǎi lán) is the Chinese name Chau was given at birth, which was later anglicized to Karen.