HSK 1 · Pronouns

我 wǒ “I” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 我 means

  1. I, me
  2. my

How to say 我

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale我wǒ3rd tone, dipping

我 in a sentence

  1. 你想让我买多少个苹果？

    Nǐ xiǎng ràng wǒ mǎi duōshǎo ge píngguǒ?

    How many apples do you want me to buy?

    Sentence #10986122 from Tatoeba

  2. 我应该什么时候打电话？

    Wǒ yīnggāi shénme shíhou dǎ diànhuà?

    When should I call?

    Sentence #12686875 from Tatoeba

  3. “这是谁的椅子？”“它是我的。”

    "Zhè shì shéi de yǐzi?" "Tā shì wǒ de."

    “Whose chair is this?” “It is mine.”

    Sentence #1737869 from Tatoeba

How 我 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 我 (wǒ) with each of its parts in a different colour
我wǒI; me; my
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 戈halberd · gē

Memory aidDrawn from a weapon with a jagged blade 戈. It was borrowed for “I, me”.

How to write 我

我 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 我

Words with 我

我们wǒmen · we

More words: Pronouns

你nǐ · you他tā · he她tā · she我们wǒmen · we您nín · you (polite)它tā · it每měi · every大家dàjiā · everyone

FAQs

我 (wǒ) means “I, me” or “my”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it wǒ: wǒ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 我 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 我 from the suggestions. Typing wo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
我 is an HSK 1 word in the 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.