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HSK 1

我

I; me

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我
wǒ3rd tone

HSK level

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Pinyin
wǒ
Part of speech
pronoun
Level
HSK 1
Strokes
7
Register
neutral

Stroke order for 我

我 is written with 7 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

What does 我 mean?

我 (wǒ) is the first-person singular pronoun — 'I' as a subject AND 'me' as an object.

Chinese pronouns don't change case, so 我喜欢他 'I like him' and 他喜欢我 'he likes me' use the same word. Two things English speakers should know: first, to make it possessive ('my / mine'), add 的: 我的书 'my book'; the 的 is sometimes dropped for close relationships (我妈 'my mom,' 我家 'my home/family'); second, to make it plural ('we / us'), add 们: 我们 (wǒmen).

Note that Mandarin also distinguishes inclusive 'we' (咱们, zánmen — you and I) from exclusive 'we' (我们 — me and others, maybe not you), though 我们 covers both in most modern speech. There's no formal/polite version of 我; 你 has 您 for politeness, but 我 stays the same regardless of who you're talking to.

Example sentences

我叫李明。

Wǒ jiào Lǐ Míng.

My name is Li Ming.

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我是中国人。

Wǒ shì Zhōngguórén.

I'm Chinese.

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我喜欢你。

Wǒ xǐhuān nǐ.

I like you.

spoken

这是我的书。

Zhè shì wǒ de shū.

This is my book.

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Common phrases with 我

我们wǒmenwe; us
我的wǒ demy; mine
我是wǒ shìI am
我叫wǒ jiàomy name is (literally 'I'm called')
我也wǒ yěme too

Synonyms

咱zán

咱 / 咱们 means 'we (you and I)' — inclusive. 我们 can be inclusive OR exclusive (just my group). Beijing speakers love 咱们; in Taiwan it sounds Northern. 咱 alone for singular 'I' is dialectal and rare.

Don't confuse 我 with

找zhǎo

找 ('to look for / to seek') looks very similar to 我 — both have 扌-like left sides and 戈 on the right. 找 has 扌 (hand radical) on the left; 我 has a single slanted stroke. A famous handwriting trap.

你nǐ

你 is 'you' — the second-person counterpart. Both are core HSK 1 pronouns; beginners sometimes swap them when writing. Sentence pattern is identical (subject + verb), so position alone won't save you.

我们wǒmen

我 = singular 'I/me.' 我们 = plural 'we/us.' Don't say 我去 if you mean 'we are going' — that's just 'I am going.'

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