们
men · HSK 1
pluralizer after pronouns and nouns of persons
👥 人 (person) + 门 (door, phonetic ‘men’) = plural marker for people
们 is a phono-semantic compound: the 亻radical marks it as person-related, while 门 (mén) supplies the sound. Attached to pronouns or human nouns (我们 we, 你们 you-all, 朋友们 friends) to mark plural.
们 — person radical 亻 + 门 (mén, gate/phonetic)
们 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the person radical 亻 signals it relates to people, while 门 (mén) supplies the sound. It was created in later vernacular Chinese as a plural marker for pronouns and people nouns (我们, 你们, 朋友们), and has no ancient pictographic origin.