俺

ǎn
pronoun #11,186

Meanings

  1. 1 I; me (northern dialect)

Examples

HSK 3
Ǎn shì Shāndōng rén.
I'm from Shandong.
HSK 4
Ǎnmen cūn hěn xiǎo.
Our village is very small.

Tips

register
俺 is a dialectal pronoun common in northern China, especially Shandong and Henan. It sounds rustic and down-to-earth. Standard Mandarin uses 我.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person (radical form of 人)
Left-side person radical, the standing two-stroke form of 人 used on the left edge of characters. The indexing radical, naturally so - 俺 is a first-person pronoun, 'I, me' in northern dialect. Same family of person-pronouns and person-action chars: 你 you, 他 he, 们 plural marker, 做 to do.
phonetic
奄 yǎn
cover; suddenly
Right side 奄 supplies the sound: yǎn to ǎn, regular pharyngealisation losing the initial. 奄 originally pictured a hand reaching to cover something quickly, surviving in 奄奄一息 (at the last gasp). Same phonetic family: 淹 to drown or submerge, 掩 to cover up, 庵 nunnery hut. Recognising 奄 unlocks the whole reading-set.

Stroke Order

俺 ǎn