们 (men): meaning and stroke order
们 (men) means plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals.
们
- Simplified
- 们
- Traditional
- 們
- Pinyin
- men
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Stroke order of 们
们
- men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 們
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Meaning of 们
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men
Traditional 們
- plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
Radical and structure
- 们
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 门 on the right
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Words with 们
- 人们 rén men people
- 他们 tā men they; them
- 你们 nǐ men you (plural)
- 我们 wǒ men we; us; ourselves; our
- 它们 tā men they; them
- 她们 tā men they; them (females)
- 孩子们 hái zi men children
们 in our stories
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原来，猫妈妈每天晚上从坏了的窗户进来，给孩子们送吃的。
yuánlái māomāma měitiān wǎnshang cóng huài le de chuānghu jìnlai gěi háizi men sòng chī de
So that was it: every night the mother cat came in through a broken window to bring food to her babies.
From the story The noise upstairs HSK 3
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杨帆要给同学们做一张介绍学校的海报。
Yáng Fān yào gěi tóngxué men zuò yì zhāng jièshào xuéxiào de hǎibào
Yang Fan has to make a poster introducing the school for his classmates.
From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
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他问邻居，邻居们都说不知道。
tā wèn línjū línjū men dōu shuō bù zhīdao
He asked his neighbours, but they all said they didn't know.
From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4
Stories using 们
- The noise upstairs HSK 3
- Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
- The river-snail girl HSK 4
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).