我

See also wǒ

Translingual [edit]

simpl. and trad.
我

Stroke order

Taiwanese stroke order

Etymology [edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 扌 (“hand”) + 戈 (“halberd, lance”). To take up arms in self-defence.

Alternatively, the character for a rake-like tool, used as a phonetic element (note oracle bone script form).

Han character [edit]

我 (radical 62 戈+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手戈 (HQI), four-corner 2355₀, composition ⿰手戈)

our, us, I, me, my, we (Mandarin, Cantonese, Minnan)

Synonyms [edit]

吾

Derived characters [edit]

哦, 硪, 饿, 蛾, 俄, 峨, 鹅, 莪, 娥, 誐, 锇, 皒, 涐, 珴, 睋, 騀, 鵞

References [edit]

KangXi: page 412, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11545
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1401, character 2
Unihan data for U+6211

Cantonese [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: /ŋɔː˩˧/

Hanzi [edit]

我 (jyutping ngo5, Yale ngo5)

I (first-person singular)

Hmong [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

我

I, me

Japanese [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

The short form of ware.

Alternative forms [edit]

吾

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: [wa]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (hiragana わ, romaji wa)

first-person personal pronoun; I, me
- c. late 9th–mid-10th century: Taketori Monogatari
  
  「[...]わが丈たち竝ぶまで養ひたてまつりたる我子を、なに人が迎へきこえん。まさに許さんや」と言ひて、[...]
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Kiritsubo)
  
  かしこき御蔭をば、たのみきこえながら、貶めきずを求め給ふ人はおほく、わがみはかよわく、物はかなきありさまにて、中々なる物思ひをぞし給ふ。
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Utsusemi)
  
  女どち、のどやかなる夕闇の、道たどたどしげなるまぎれに、わが車にてゐてたてまつる。

Etymology 2 [edit]

The long form of wa. Compound of wa and suffix re.

Alternative forms [edit]

吾

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: [waɽe]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (hiragana われ, romaji ware)

first person personal pronoun; I, me, oneself
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3384)
  
  可都思加能麻末能手兒奈乎麻許登可聞和礼尓余須等布麻末乃弖胡奈乎
- c. late 9th–mid-10th century: Taketori Monogatari
  
  この人々、あるときは竹取を呼び出て「娘を吾にたべ」と、ふし拝み、手をすりのたまへど[...]
- c. late 9th–mid-10th century: Taketori Monogatari
  
  「[...]わが丈たち竝ぶまで養ひたてまつりたる我子を、なに人が迎へきこえん。まさに許さんや」と言ひて、「われこそ死なめ」とて[...]
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Utsusemi)
  
  紀の守のいもうとも、こなたにあるか。われに、垣間見せさせよ
- 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho
  
  Vare. ワレ (我) 私. また, おまえ. 本来の正しい言い方ではないが、下賎な者と話したり, 人を軽しめたりする時に用いる.
second person personal pronoun; you
- 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 679)
  
  Vare. ワレ (我) 私. また, おまえ. 本来の正しい言い方ではないが、下賎な者と話したり, 人を軽しめたりする時に用いる.

Etymology 3 [edit]

Eastern dialect. Cognate with ware.

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: [wanu]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (hiragana わぬ, romaji wanu)

first person personal pronoun; I, me, oneself
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3476)
  
  宇倍兒奈波和奴尓故布奈毛多刀都久能努賀奈敝由家婆故布思可流奈母或本歌末句曰奴我奈敝由家杼和奴賀由乃敝波
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 20, poem #4358)
  
  於保伎美乃美許等加志古美伊弖久礼婆和努等里都伎弖伊比之古奈波毛

Etymology 4 [edit]

/waro₂/ > /waro/. Likely a compound of wa and suffix ro.

Alternative forms [edit]

吾

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: [waɽo]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (hiragana わろ, romaji waro)

first person personal pronoun; I, me, oneself
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 20, poem #4343)
  
  和呂多比波多比等於米保等已比尓志弖古米知夜須良牟和加美可奈志母

Etymology 5 [edit]

The short form of are.

Alternative forms [edit]

吾

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: [a]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (hiragana あ, romaji a)

first-person personal pronoun; I, me
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3456)
  
  宇都世美能夜蘇許登乃敝波思気久等母安良蘇比可祢弖安乎許登奈須那
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3457)
  
  宇知日佐須美夜能和我世波夜麻登女乃比射麻久其登尓安乎和須良須奈
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3458)
  
  奈勢能古夜等里乃乎加恥志奈可太乎礼安乎祢思奈久与伊久豆君麻弖尓
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3471)
  
  思麻良久波祢都追母安良牟乎伊米能未尓母登奈見要都追安乎祢思奈久流
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Yūgao)
  
  あが君、生き出で給へ。いと、いみじき目な見せ給ひそ

Etymology 6 [edit]

The long form of a. Compound of a and suffix re.

Alternative forms [edit]

吾

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA: [aɽe]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (hiragana あれ, romaji are)

first-person personal pronoun; I, me
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 5, poem #808)
  
  多都乃麻乎阿礼波毛等米牟阿遠尓与志奈良乃美夜古迩許牟比等乃多仁
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3361)
  
  安思我良能乎弖毛許乃母尓佐須和奈乃可奈流麻之豆美許呂安礼比毛等久
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 15, poem #3585)
  
  和伎母故我之多尓毛伎余等於久理多流許呂母能比毛乎安礼等可米也母
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 17, poem #3932)
  
  須麻比等乃海辺都祢佐良受夜久之保能可良吉恋乎母安礼波須流香物
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 18, poem #4058)
  
  多知婆奈能登乎能多知婆奈夜都代尓母安礼波和須礼自許乃多知婆奈乎
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 20, poem #4298)
  
  霜上尓安良礼多婆之里伊夜麻之尓安礼波麻為許牟年緒奈我久 _古今未詳
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Yume no Ukihashi)
  
  [...]と、聞こえ動かして、几帳のもとに、おし寄せたてまつりたれば、あれにもあらず、居給へるけはい[...]

Kanji [edit]

我 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

On: が (ga)
Kun: われ (ware), わ (wa)

Compounds [edit]

References [edit]

1980 May 22 [1603–1604], Tadao Doi, Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0008-0021-3:
1997 May 22, Hideaki Horiuchi; Akiyama Ken, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 17: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0024-0017-4:
1999 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240001-8:
2002 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240003-4:
2003 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man'yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240004-2:
1958 May 22 [c. 1001–1014], Tokuhei Yamagishi, Koten Bungaku Taikei 14: Genji Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0014-1:
1963 May 22 [c. 1001–1014], Tokuhei Yamagishi, Koten Bungaku Taikei 14: Genji Monogatari 5 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0018-4:

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

我 (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)

Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin wǒ)

I, me

耶和华说，谁告诉你赤身露体呢？莫非你吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那树上的果子吗？

Yēhéhuá shuō , shuí gàosu nǐ chìshēnlòutǐ ne , mòfēi nǐ chī le wǒ fēnfu nǐ bùkĕ chī de nà shù shàng de guǒzi ma .

And Jehovah said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

我 (ŋấ, *ngɑ̌)

Min Nan [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

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Pronoun [edit]

我 (traditional and simplified, POJ góa)

I, me

Vietnamese [edit]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (ngã, ngả)

tôi, ta

Wu [edit]

Pronoun [edit]

我 (ngou)

Pronunciation [edit]

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Alternative forms [edit]

Latin Alphabet: ngouˇ

Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄨㄛˇ

	Singular	Plural
1st person	我	我們
2nd person	你	你們
3rd person	他	他們
3rd person	她	她們
3rd person	它	它們

我

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