他们
tā men 1–5
they
- Characters
- 2
- 他 · 们
- Syllables
- 2
- tā men
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 49
Part of speech: r
Character by character
- 他tā5 strokesHSK 1other, another; he, she, it
- 们men5 strokesHSK 1 traditional 們adjunct pronoun indicate plural
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他们呢？
Tā men ne
What about them?
他们到了。
Tā men dào le
They have arrived.
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 他们. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 他tāHSK 1
he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant); (used before sb's name for emphasis); (used as a meaningless mock object); (literary) other
- 我们wǒ menHSK 1
we; us; ourselves; our
- 你们nǐ menHSK 1
you (plural)
- 其他qí tāHSK 2
other; (sth or sb) else; the rest
- 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)
- 咱们zán menHSK 2
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]
- 他人tā rénHSK 7
another person; sb else; other people
- 吉他jí tāHSK 7
guitar (loanword)