咱

See also: 偺
咱 U+54B1, 咱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B1
← 咰
[U+54B0]
CJK Unified Ideographs 咲 →
[U+54B2]

Translingual

Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𥻢

References

  • 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

Etymology 1

trad. 咱/喒/偺
simp. 咱
alternative forms 𠴰
倃/咱

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

Pronunciation


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

Definitions

咱

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

See also

Standard Mandarin Chinese personal pronouns
Person Singular Plural
1st — 我 (wǒ) 我們/我们 (wǒmen)
inclusive 咱們/咱们 (zánmen)
2nd male/indefinite 你 (nǐ) 你們/你们 (nǐmen)
female 妳/你 (nǐ) 妳們/你们 (nǐmen)
deity 祢 (nǐ) 祢們/祢们 (nǐmen)
polite 您 (nín) 你們/你们 (nǐmen)
您們/您们 (nínmen)
3rd male/indefinite 他 (tā) 他們/他们 (tāmen)
female 她 (tā) 她們/她们 (tāmen)
deity 祂 (tā) 祂們/祂们 (tāmen)
animal 牠/它 (tā) 牠們/它们 (tāmen)
inanimate 它 (tā) 它們/它们 (tāmen)

Etymology 2

Fusion of 早晚 (zǎowǎn).

Pronunciation


Definitions

咱

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

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.
咱
alternative forms 俺
㑑
玌

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

Pronunciation


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

Definitions

咱 (Southern Min)

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

Compounds

See also

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.
咱

Pronunciation


Definitions

咱

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

Etymology 5

simp. and trad.
咱

Pronunciation


Definitions

咱

  1. † Alternative form of 咋 (“how”)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

咱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

咱 • (chal, cha) (hangeul 찰, 차, revised chal, cha, McCune–Reischauer ch'al, ch'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咱: Hán Nôm readings: cha, ta, thính

  1. Variant of 聽, see there for more details.
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