我 wǒ
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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). -
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) -
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) -
adjective
[my] dear
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In a friendly manner (Guoyu '我' adj) -
proper noun
Wo
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '我' n 2)
Contained in
- 代我 took my place
- 依然故我 to be one's old self / to be unchanged / to be stuck in one's ways
- 我侪(我儕) we / our group
- 自我 self
- 自我催眠 self-hypnotism
- 依我看 in my opinion
- 我人 we
- 顺我者昌逆我者亡(順我者昌逆我者亡) submit to me and prosper, or oppose me and perish
- 贡高我慢(貢高我慢) haughty and arrogant
- 故我 one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been
- 勿忘我 forget-me-not, genus Myosotis
- 你死我活 you die, I live / irreconcilable adversaries / two parties cannot coexist
- 自我防卫(自我防衛) self-defense
- 自我意识(自我意識) self-awareness
- 自我提升(自我提昇) self-enhancement
- 残我黎庶(殘我黎庶) massacre the people
- 我肏 (vulgar) damn / WTF
- 敌我矛盾(敵我矛盾) contradictions between ourselves and the enemy / Either you are for us or against us.
- 你争我夺(你爭我奪) you fight, I snatch / to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war
- 觇我军(覘我軍) reconnaissance against our army
- 自我安慰 to comfort oneself / to console oneself / to reassure oneself
- 自我介绍(自我介紹) self-introduction / to introduce oneself
- 我曹 WTF
- 三人行，必有我师(三人行，必有我師) if three walk together, one can be my teacher
- 自我批评(自我批評) self-criticism
- 我误会你了(我誤會你了) I misjudged you
- 包在我身上 leave it to me / I'll take care of it
- 苏我(蘇我) Soga
Also contained in
好事从我做起 、 好话从我说起 、 我法二执 、 如是我闻 、 无我 、 诸法无我 、 神我 、 人我之间 、 我见身缚 、 我胜慢 、 我慢 、 我法 、 我相 、 好心从我生起 、 我空 、 我事 、 我顚倒 、 我从来疑着这汉 、 我愚 、 大我 、 你有我无 、 五空泽问我乐 、 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
- 第十四回 Chapter 14 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 126
- 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 126
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 120