们
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plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 人 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 們
- Common rank
- #2,135
- Unicode
- U+4EEC
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
(plural) · Heisig RSH #1261
人 person + 门 gate
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 们
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 他们 | they; them | |
| 我们 | we; us; ourselves; our | |
| 你们 | you (plural) | |
| 她们 | they; them (females) | |
| 铁哥们儿 | erhua variant of 鐵哥們|铁哥们[tie3 ge1 men5] | |
| 图们市 | Tumen, a county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州|延边朝鲜族自治州[Yan2 … | |
| 图们江 | Tumen river in Jilin province 吉林省, forming the eastern border between China and North Kore… | |
| 哥们儿 | erhua form of 哥們|哥们[ge1 men5] | |
| 铁哥们 | (coll.) very close male friends | |
| 人们 | people | |
| 娘儿们 | (dialect) woman; wife | |
| 亚们 | Amon (son of Manasseh) | |
| 阿们 | (loanword) amen | |
| 图们 | see 圖們市|图们市[Tu2 men2 Shi4] | |
| 姐们儿 | erhua form of 姐們|姐们[jie3 men5] | |
| 爷们儿 | erhua variant of 爺們|爷们[ye2 men5] | |
| 亲们 | darlings; fans; followers; short form of 親愛的們|亲爱的们 | |
| 孩子们 | children | |
| 哥们 | (coll.) dude; buddy; bro | |
| 弟兄们 | brothers; comrades; men; brethren |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 门 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门 sound part | gate, door, entrance, opening | |
| 问 | to ask about, to inquire after | |
| 闻 | news; to hear, to smell; to make known | |
| 闷 | gloomy, depressed, melancholy | |
| 闽 | Fujian province; a river; a tribe | |
| 闰 | intercalary; extra, surplus | |
| 蔺 | hay, straw; surname | |
| 闵 | to mourn, to grieve; to incite, to urge on | |
| 扪 | to stoke, to pat; to grope, to feel | |
| 訚 | respectful; to speak gently | |
| 钔 | mendelevium |