HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Pronouns

她们 tāmen “they” in Chinese

Traditional 她們

What 她们 means

  1. they
  2. them (for females)
  3. them (females)

How to say 她们

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale她tā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own们menneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

她们 in a sentence

  1. 她们在说什么？

    Tāmen zài shuō shénme?

    What are they saying?

    Sentence #4437208 from Tatoeba

  2. 她们是孩子。

    Tāmen shì háizi.

    They’re children.

    Sentence #3579729 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我想做她们的朋友。

    Wǒ xiǎng zuò tāmen de péngyou.

    I want to be their friend.

    Sentence #10456825 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 她们 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 她 (tā) with each of its parts in a different colour
她tāshe
  • 女woman · nǚ
  • 也also · yě

Memory aidWoman 女 in place of person 亻: she.

The character 们 (men) with each of its parts in a different colour
们menplural marker for pronouns
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 门gate · ménSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 门 (mén) hints at the sound. Compare it with men.

How to write 她们

她 6 strokes · 们 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

她们 (tāmen) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 她们 (tāmen). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 她们

Words with 她

她tā · she

Words with 们

们men · plural marker for pronouns我们wǒmen · we你们nǐmen · you (plural)他们tāmen · they它们tāmen · they (for inanimate objects)人们rénmen · people咱们zánmen · we

More words: People, Body & Health

同学tóngxué · classmate哪些nǎxiē · which ones?那些nàxiē · those它们tāmen · they (for inanimate objects)有的yǒude · (there are) some (who are…)有些yǒuxiē · some这些zhèxiē · these那个nàge · that one

FAQs

她们 (tāmen) means “they” or “them (for females)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it tāmen: tā with a 1st tone, then men with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 她们 is written 她們. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tamen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 她们 from the suggestions. Typing tamen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
她们 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.