Example sentences
wǒ我lái来le了。
I'm here.
wǒ我hěn很hǎo好。
I'm fine.
The story behind the character
我
In the oracle bone inscriptions 我 was a weapon: a shaft with a row of teeth running along one edge. The word for "I" sounded like the word for that thing, so scribes borrowed the graph and never gave it back, the same trick that turned 八 into eight. You write an ancient blade every time you refer to yourself.