Chinese Notes

我 wǒ

1. wǒ pronoun I / me / my
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词 , 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 (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 76). 我 is the fifth most frequently used word in the Beijing Language Institute's 1985 frequency wordlist (Ho, 2002, '我').
2. 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'; FGDB '我')
3. wǒ pronoun our
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词 , Concept: Personal Pronoun 人称代词
   Notes: For example, 我国 'our country' (Ho, 2002, '我'; NCCED '我' 2)

Contained in

我们 、 我国 、 无我 、 自我 、 我人 、 我等 、 我执 、 我见 、 观法无我 、 如是我闻 、 我相 、 超我 、 本我 、 五空泽问我乐 、 我语取 、 非我 、 外道问圣大乘法无我义经 、 尼干子问无我义经 、 我德 、 法无我 、 诸法无我 、 我辈 、 我颠倒 、 我法二执 、 我空

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