IDENTITY
们ménplural marker for people (neutral tone as a suffix)
HSK 1Top 440
CORE MEANING
plural marker for people (neutral tone as a suffix)
- Part of speech
- particle
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.plural suffix (people); usually neutral tone menHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亻person radical (rén)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亻门
- person radical
- gives the sound men
USAGE
Common words
我们wǒmenwe
你们nǐmenyou (plural)
他们tāmenthey
Graded examples
我们一起去吧。Wǒmen yìqǐ qù ba.HSK1
Let us go together.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
People (亻) at the door (门) — more than one.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #440
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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