我

Right indexing dagger-axe radical — the weapon being gripped. Its strokes interleave with the hand on the left (the long horizontal-and-hook plus the slash and dot intermix with the hand strokes). Originally 我 named the serrated halberd itself; the pronoun reading 'I/me' is an ancient phonetic borrowing. Same weapon radical anchors 战 (war), 戎 (military), 戍 (garrison).

The hand-radical strokes interleave with the dagger-axe on the right, depicting a hand gripping the weapon. Originally 我 was a pictograph of a saw-toothed dagger-axe held by a hand — 'the weapon-holder' was loaned phonetically as the first-person pronoun. The hand component preserves the grip, scattered across non-contiguous strokes because the weapon and hand are intertwined in the glyph.