拼音
- men (neutral tone)
the plural suffix for pronouns and for nouns denoting people: 我们, 你们, 他们, 朋友们
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰亻门The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 亻meaning partno entry yetThe person radical: the suffix attaches to people and to nothing else.
- 门sound part门 mén gives the sound; said without stress in this position it becomes men.
Mnemonic
A person 亻 with a gate 门 beside it for the sound: mén, said without stress, becomes men. It attaches only to people — 我们, 你们, 他们, 老师们 — and two limits are worth taking on board at once. It never follows a number: 三个学生, never 三个学生们. And it is not used for things: 书 is one book or many, according to context.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
部首 人 — other characters
- 人rén (second tone, rising)person, human being; people
- 他tā (first tone, high and level)he, him; his; (in the plural 他们) they, including groups of mixed or unstated gender
- 你nǐ (third tone, dipping)you (one person)
- 会會huì (fourth tone, falling) kuài (fourth tone, falling)to know how to, to be able to (through learning); to be likely to, will; a meeting, a gathering, an association; (kuài) only in 会计, accounting
- 住zhù (fourth tone, falling)to live, to dwell, to stay; to stop, to halt; (as a verb complement) firmly, fast
- 借jiè (fourth tone, falling)to borrow; to lend; to make use of, to take (an opportunity)