們

See also: 们
們 U+5011, 們
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5011
← 倐
[U+5010] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倒 →
[U+5012]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

們 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人日弓 (OAN), four-corner 27220, composition ⿰亻門)

References

  • KangXi: page 107, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 766
  • Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 185, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5011

Chinese

trad. 們
simp. 们

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 門 (OC *mɯːn).

Etymology 1

First attested in the Song dynasty (Lü, 1940). Various other glyphs representing *mVn have been attested in Song dynasty texts, including 懣, 滿, 瞞, 門.

It is probably related to 弭 (MC miᴇX) (in 我弭) and 偉 (MC ɦʉiX) (in 兒郎偉) attested in the Tang dynasty (Lü, 1940); it is related to 每, as in 我每, common during the Jin dynasty, Yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty (Lü, 1985).

Proposed etymologies:

  • From the personal pronoun plural marker 輩 (OC *puːls) (Lü, 1985; Feng, 1997; Li, 2013).
  • From 門 (MC muən, “door; clan; family”) (Ota, 2003; Yu, 1989; Li and Shi, 2000).
  • From 每人 (MC muʌiX ȵiɪn, “everybody”) (Norman, 1988); compare Min Dong 各儂／各侬 (“everybody”), used in 我各儂／我各侬 (“we; us”), 汝各儂／汝各侬 (“you (plural)”), 伊各儂／伊各侬 (“they”).
  • From 物 (MC mɨut̚, “thing”) (Jiang, 1995).

Also compare 您.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • men2-1 - vernacular;
  • men2 - literary.
Note:
  • miin - vernacular;
  • miin4 - literary.

Definitions

們

  1. Suffix indicating plural for pronouns, some animated nouns and personifications.
    我們 / 我们  ―  wǒmen  ―  we
    孩子們 / 孩子们  ―  háizimen  ―  children
  2. (Jin) General suffix indicating plural.

Compounds

  • 爺兒們／爷儿们
  • 牠們／它们 (tāmen)
  • 窮哥們／穷哥们
  • 老哥兒們／老哥儿们
  • 老娘們／老娘们
  • 老師們／老师们 (lǎoshīmen)
  • 老爺們／老爷们
  • 誰們／谁们
  • 諾們罕／诺们罕
  • 這們／这们
  • 那們／那们
  • 鐵哥們／铁哥们
  • 阿們／阿们

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

們

  1. Only used in 們渾／们浑.

Japanese

Kanji

們

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

們 • (mun) (hangeul 문, McCune–Reischauer mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

們 (món, môn, mon)

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