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咱

zán

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character

What 咱 means

1. I or me
2. we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)

Other readings

咱 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zánvariant of {咱|zán}
• zánvariant of {咱|zán}
• zásee {咱|zán}

Example sentences

• 咱去那吧。
  Let's go there.
• 咱们聊聊吧！
  Let's have a chat.
• 咱们回顾一下。
  Zánmen huígù yīxià.
  Let's review.
• 咱们都是学生。
  Both you and I are students.
• 咱们穿马路吧。
  Let's cross the street.
• 咱们AA制吧。
  Let's split the bill.

Words starting with 咱

• 咱们zán menwe or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me…
• 咱俩zán liǎthe two of us
• 咱家zán jiāI; me; we

Words containing 咱

• 多咱duō zan(dialect) when?; what time?; whenever
• 这咱zhè zánnow; at this moment
• 那咱nà zanat that time (old)

Characters that look like 咱

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 哇wāWow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
• 唔wúoh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
• 咕gū(onomatopoeia) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
• 咭jīvariant of 叽
• 呣ḿinterjection expressing a question
• 咂zāto sip; to smack one's lips; to taste

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zán correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.