他们 (tā men): meaning and stroke order
他们 (tā men) means they; them.
他们
- Simplified
- 他们
- Traditional
- 他們
- Pinyin
- tā men
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Stroke order of 他们
他
- tā (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
们
- men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 們
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Meaning of 他们
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tā men
Traditional 他們
- they; them
Radicals of the characters
- 他
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 也 on the right
- 们
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 门 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
他们 in our stories
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他们说：“对不起！”
tāmen shuō duìbuqǐ
They say, "Sorry!"
From the story Not my bag HSK 1
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九点，他们到医院。
jiǔ diǎn tāmen dào yīyuàn
At nine they reach the hospital.
From the story Taking a taxi HSK 1
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他们听到了手机的声音，可是声音很小。
tāmen tīng dào le shǒujī de shēngyīn kěshì shēngyīn hěn xiǎo
They hear his phone ring, but very faintly.
From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2
Where you learn it
他们 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 他们
- Not my bag HSK 1
- Taking a taxi HSK 1
- Where's my phone? HSK 2
- No umbrella HSK 3
- English on the basketball court HSK 5
- The three-tier cake HSK 5
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).