我

Glyph origin
A of a rake-like tool or weapon (note the oracle bone script form);  considers it to be the original character for. conjecture about its similarity to a kind of three-bladed polearm found at archaeological sites; cf. . It was already borrowed for sound to mean "I" (in the sense of "first-person subject") since the oracle bone script.

considers it to be an ideograph of a hand holding a weapon  to protect oneself.

Some have suggested a contrast with, interpreting the latter as a weapon with tip pointing outward.

Etymology
From. Cognate with, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The expected Mandarin pronunciation is ě (now only found in a few Northern dialects); wǒ is "a col[loquial] archaism".

Definitions

 * 1) I; me; my
 * 2)  we; us; our
 * 3)  to stubbornly hold to one's own opinion
 * 4)  to kill
 * 5)  tilted
 * 1)  to stubbornly hold to one's own opinion
 * 2)  to kill
 * 3)  tilted
 * 1)  to kill
 * 2)  tilted

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 1
From, as the long form of below.

Compound of.

Pronoun

 * : I, me, oneself
 * : you

Usage notes

 * In modern Japanese, most often encountered in the plural forms and.

Etymology 2
From.

Pronoun

 * : I, me

Usage notes

 * In modern Japanese, most often encountered in fossilized phrases in combination with the Old Japanese possessive particle, such as or.

Etymology 6
From.

The Buddhist senses are a translation of.

Noun

 * 1) the ego, self
 * 2) self-righteousness
 * 3)  obstinacy
 * 4)  atman
 * 1)  atman

Affix

 * 1) self, oneself, myself
 * 2) egotism, selfishness
 * 3)  atman

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
From.

Pronoun

 * : I, me

Etymology 2
From.

Pronoun

 * : I, me, oneself

Etymology 3
Likely a compound of.

Pronoun

 * : I, me

Etymology 4
The eastern variant of. Appears to be +, appearing here not as the negative verb auxiliary but rather as a suffixing element of uncertain meaning. Appears in the , volume 14 poem 3476.

Pronoun

 * : I, me, oneself

Pronoun

 * : I, me

Etymology 6
From.

Pronoun

 * : I, me