See also:
U+54B1, 咱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B1

[U+54B0]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+54B2]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 30, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口竹月山 (RHBU), four-corner 66000, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 187, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3552
  • Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 618, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+54B1

Chinese edit

Etymology 1 edit

trad. //
simp.
alternative forms 𠴰

Fusion of 自家 (MC dzijH kae, “self”) [Song] > Modern Mandarin (Lü, 1984). Fusion with (men) produces the form with a nasal coda [Yuan], e.g. Modern Mandarin zán (Norman, 1988).

Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • zán - “I (dialectal); we; particle”;
  • zá - “I (literary)”.
Note: zaa2, ze1 - rare.

Definitions edit

  1. (literary or dialectal) I; me
  2. (inclusive) we; us
  3. (literary) A particle used after personal pronouns.
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
  • Vietnamese: ta

See also edit

Standard Mandarin Chinese personal pronouns
Person Singular Plural
1st () 我們我们 (wǒmen)
inclusive 咱們咱们 (zánmen)
2nd male/indefinite () 你們你们 (nǐmen)
female () 妳們你们 (nǐmen)
deity () 祢們祢们 (nǐmen)
polite (nín) 你們你们 (nǐmen)
您們您们 (nínmen)
3rd male/indefinite () 他們他们 (tāmen)
female () 她們她们 (tāmen)
deity () 祂們祂们 (tāmen)
animal () 牠們它们 (tāmen)
inanimate () 它們它们 (tāmen)

Etymology 2 edit

Fusion of 早晚 (zǎowǎn).

Pronunciation edit


Definitions edit

  1. (dialectal, in compounds) time
      ―  zhèzan  ―  now

Etymology 3 edit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

From (lâng, “person; I, me”) + elision of . Compare (gún, goán, “we, us (exclusive)”), (lín, “you (plural)”), 𪜶 (in, “they, them”).

Pronunciation edit


Note: nán - usually as an instance of nasal assimilation on syllable initial/s usually from a previous syllable's nasal ending.

Definitions edit

(Southern Min)

  1. (inclusive) we; us
  2. (polite) you
  3. (inclusive) our
Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

See also edit

Etymology 4 edit

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation edit


Definitions edit

  1. Sentence-final modal particle for the imperative mood, similar to (ba).
  2. Sentence-final modal particle for the declarative mood.

Etymology 5 edit

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation edit


Definitions edit

  1. Alternative form of (how)

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(chal, cha) (hangeul , , revised chal, cha, McCune–Reischauer ch'al, ch'a)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: cha, ta, thính

  1. chữ Hán form of ta (I; me; we; us).
  2. Variant of , see there for more details.