ǎn
pronoun #11,186

Meanings

  1. 1 I; me (northern dialect)

Examples

Ǎn shì Shāndōng rén.
I'm from Shandong.
Ǎnmen cūn hěnxiǎo.
Our village is very small.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

ǎn