她们 tāmen HSK1 they (females) Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 她 tā she Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound. Similar to 他 (he). Components 女 女 Meaning component nǚ, nü woman 也 也 Sound component yě also Change in sound 她 and 也 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese. 她 *l̥ˤaj (E dialect: *l̥ˤ- > MC th-) 也 *lAjʔ Historical Pronunciations Sources Readings & variants Unicode 们 men [plural] Simplified Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 门 represents the sound. Components 亻 亻 Meaning component rén person 亻 is a component form of 人. 门 门 Sound component mén, men door Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode 們 men [plural] Traditional Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 門 represents the sound. Components 亻 亻 Meaning component rén person 亻 is a component form of 人. 門 門 Sound component mén, men door Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode