咱们
zán men 2–5
we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [zá men]
- Characters
- 2
- 咱 · 们
- Syllables
- 2
- zán men
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,405
Part of speech: r
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
那么，咱们走吧。
Nà me zán men zǒu ba
In that case, let's go.
这都是咱们听说的。
Zhè dōu shì zán men tīng shuō de
That’s what we heard.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 咱们. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 我们wǒ menHSK 1
we; us; ourselves; our
- 他们tā menHSK 1
they
- 你们nǐ menHSK 1
you (plural)
- 们menHSK 1
plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- 人们rén menHSK 2
people
- 它们tā menHSK 2
they (for inanimate objects)
- 她们tā menHSK 1
they; them (for females)
- 咱zánHSK 2
I or me; we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)