她们
tāmen · HSK 1
they (female)
👩👩👧 她 (she) + 们 (plural suffix) = they (female)
她 is the female third-person pronoun (女 radical + 也). 们 is the plural marker for people (人 radical + 门 for sound). Together: she + plural = they-female. Contrast with 他们 (mixed/male they).
她 — woman radical 女 + 也
她 is a modern semantic-phonetic compound: 女 (woman) gives the meaning, while 也 supplies the sound. It was coined in the early 20th century by writer Liu Bannong to translate the English pronoun 'she'; before then, 他 was used for all third-person pronouns regardless of gender.
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.