们
men
makes people plural: 我们 we
No. 17 most used · 1.5% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 67.
How it's built
- 亻person
- 门gateGives the sound: mén
A way to remember it
A person (亻) and more behind the gate (门): more than one.
Top 50 · accounts for 41% of everyday spoken Chinese · 0 of 50 known
Words
- 我们wǒ menwe; us; ourselves
- 他们tā menthey; them
- 你们nǐ menyou (plural)
- 它们tā menthey; them
- 人们rén menpeople
- 她们tā menthey; them (females)
Sentences
- 他们一定是美国人。tā men yí dìng shì měi guó rénThey must be Americans.
- 他们一起去看电影。tā men yì qǐ qù kàn diàn yǐngThey go to movies together.
- 他们不会再见面了。tā men bú huì zài jiàn miàn leThey would never meet again.
- 他们不想和我说话。tā men bù xiǎng hé wǒ shuō huàThey don't want to talk to me.
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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.