HSK 1 · Pronouns

我们 wǒmen “we” in Chinese

Traditional 我們

What 我们 means

  1. we, us
  2. ourselves

How to say 我们

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

我们 in a sentence

  1. 老师开始问我们问题。

    Lǎoshī kāishǐ wèn wǒmen wèntí.

    The teacher started asking us questions.

    Sentence #14007962 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们能在哪儿打电话？

    Wǒmen néng zài nǎr dǎ diànhuà?

    Where can we make a phone call?

    Sentence #501694 from Tatoeba

  3. 你想让我们跟你一起去吗？

    Nǐ xiǎng ràng wǒmen gēn nǐ yìqǐ qù ma?

    Do you want us to go with you?

    Sentence #10734457 from Tatoeba

How 我们 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 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”.

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 我们

我 7 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.

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

Words related to 我们

Words with 我

我wǒ · I

Words with 们

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

More words: Pronouns

我wǒ · I你nǐ · you他tā · he她tā · she这zhè · this那nà · that您nín · you (polite)它tā · it

FAQs

我们 (wǒmen) means “we, us” or “ourselves”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it wǒmen: wǒ with a 3rd 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, 我们 is written 我們. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type women with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 我们 from the suggestions. Typing women into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
我们 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.