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The character 们 functions as a plural marker for personal pronouns and nouns referring to people, indicating a group. It is a phono-semantic compound: the left "person" radical (亻) provides the semantic human context, while the right component for "door" (门/門) supplies the pronunciation. It cannot be used with exact numbers or specific quantities, serving only to pluralize general human nouns or pronouns like "we", "you all", or "they". As a grammatical suffix, it always carries a neutral tone in standard pronunciation.
Example Sentences Hide
我们回家了。
你们去学校吗？
他们是我的朋友。
孩子们在公园玩。
人们都喜欢这个地方。
我们应该帮助需要帮助的人们。
老师们正在讨论新的教学方法。
当我们相遇时，我们都笑了。