我 wǒ
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wǒ
pronoun I / me / my
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Personal Pronoun 人称代词
Notes: 我 is used as a first person pronoun in both modern (NCCED '我' 1) and literary Chinese. For example, in modern Chinese: 我比你岁数大点 'I am a little older than you.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 174) In literary Chinese, 我 was used as a first person pronoun as early as preclassical times in the Shang Dynasty (Guoyu '我' pronoun 1; Kroll 2015 '我' 1, p. 478; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 76). 我 is the fifth most frequently used word in the Beijing Language Institute's 1985 frequency wordlist (Ho 2002, '我'; XHZD '我', p. 792). -
wǒ
noun
self / ātman / attan
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: ātman, Pali: attan; Japanese: ga; the agent controlling the mind and body that passes from lifetime to lifetime, in contrast to anātman (BL 'ātman', p. 78; FGDB '我'; Guoyu '我' n 1; Kroll 2015 '我' 2, p. 478) -
wǒ
pronoun
we / our
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Personal Pronoun 人称代词
Notes: In the sense of 己方; for example, 我国 'our country' (Guoyu '我' pronoun 2; Ho 2002, '我'; NCCED '我' 2) -
wǒ
adjective
[my] dear
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In a friendly manner (Guoyu '我' adj) -
wǒ
proper noun
Wo
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '我' n 2)
Contained in
- 我靠 bosh! / crap!
- 我司 our company (polite)
- 摘我园中蔬(摘我園中蔬) pick the vegetables growing in my garden
- 我醉欲眠 I'm drunk and would like to sleep / (used to indicate one's sincere and straightforward nature)
- 自我提升(自我提昇) self-enhancement
- 我方 our side / we
- 我操 WTF
- 据我所知(據我所知) as far as I know / to the best of my knowledge
- 自我陶醉 self-satisfied / self-imbued / narcissistic
- 敌众我寡(敵眾我寡) outnumbered by the enemy
- 你走你的阳关道,我过我的独木桥(你走你的陽關道,我過我的獨木橋) you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge / you go your way, I'll go mine
- 超我 superego
- 我少 my younger years
- 我曹 WTF
- 你追我赶(你追我趕) friendly one-upmanship / to try to emulate
- 复我疆宇(復我疆宇) reestablishment of the empire
- 我肏 (vulgar) damn / WTF
- 你争我夺(你爭我奪) you fight, I snatch / to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war
- 你死我活 you die, I live / irreconcilable adversaries / two parties cannot coexist
- 自我催眠 self-hypnotism
- 我家 my family ; me
- 我人 we
- 我侪(我儕) we / our group
- 依然故我 to be one's old self / to be unchanged / to be stuck in one's ways
- 本我 id
- 类我(類我) be the same as me
- 我勒个去(我勒個去) shoot! / crap!
- 自我实现(自我實現) self-actualization / self-realization
- 自我的人 (my, your) own person / (to assert) one's own personality
- 据我看(據我看) in my view / in my opinion / from what I can see
- 我误会你了(我誤會你了) I misjudged you
Also contained in
我身 、 无我 、 你有我无 、 我德 、 我室 、 人我之间 、 五空泽问我乐 、 我见 、 我执 、 我有 、 我劣慢 、 法无我 、 好话从我说起 、 我从来疑着这汉 、 我愚 、 我胜慢 、 你乐我苦 、 我爱 、 法我执 、 神我谛
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 199
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 182
- 第三十一回 Chapter 31 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 152
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 152
- 第二回 Chapter 74 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 145
- 第二回 Chapter 46 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 142
- 第二回 Chapter 28 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 135
- 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 126
- 第十四回 Chapter 14 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 126
- 第二回 Chapter 45 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 120