我

我 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手戈 (HQI), four-corner 2355₀, composition ⿻𠂌戈)

• 俄, 哦, 娥, 峨, 㧴, 涐, 𫠰, 𣇕, 𬚾, 𪲘, 𤘋, 珴, 𫨎, 𤯫, 皒, 睋, 硪, 䄉, 𬓬, 𬚚, 𫇇, 𦩆, 蛾, 𧚄, 𪱤, 𬻪, 誐, 𧶕, 䞲, 𨁟, 𨉐, 鋨(锇), 𭔒, 𭭯, 餓(饿), 𭧦, 騀, 𩷦, 䳘, 𤄣, 𪘐
• 𬪂, 𨿍, 𡦛, 𢧲, 𩒰, 𩣣, 鵝(鹅), 𠩙, 𡱫, 峩, 莪, 𬕆, 義, 𡻍, 𩭝, 𦾒, 𡽥, 䳗, 𪭗, 𫪋, 𬐡, 䖸, 𩣨, 鵞, 𧒎, 𢐯, 𢐱, 𦏡, 𥪺

• 𛀜 (Hentaigana)

• KangXi: page 412, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11545
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1401, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6211

• 我 on Wikidata.Wikidata

Historical forms of the character 我
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

A pictogram (象形) of a rake-like tool or weapon (note the oracle bone script form); Guo Moruo considers it to be the original character for 錡 (OC *ɡral, “a kind of axe or chisel”). Jao & Zeng (1985, pp. 289–290) conjecture about its similarity to a kind of three-bladed polearm found at archaeological sites; cf. 戈 (“polearm with one blade”). It was already borrowed for sound to mean "I" (in the sense of "first-person subject") since the oracle bone script.

Folk etymology considers it to be an ideograph of a hand (手) holding a weapon (戈) to protect oneself.

Some have suggested a contrast with 爾, interpreting the latter as a weapon with tip pointing outward. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-j ~ ka. Cognate with 吾 (OC *ŋaː), Burmese ငါ (nga, “I”), Hakka 𠊎 (ngài). The expected Mandarin pronunciation is ě (now only found in a few Northern dialects); wǒ is "a col[loquial] archaism" (Schuessler, 2007).

我

1. I; me; my

   認識你我真高興。／认识你我真高兴。  ―  Rènshí nǐ wǒ zhēn gāoxìng.  ―  I am pleased to meet you.

   我哥哥每日返工都遲到。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我哥哥每日返工都迟到。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ go¹ go¹ mui⁵ jat⁶ faan¹ gung¹ dou¹ ci⁴ dou³. [Jyutping]

   My brother is late for work every day.

   今朝公司有事體，我先走了。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   今朝公司有事体，我先走了。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   [t͡ɕɪɲ⁵⁵ t͡sɔ²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ sz̩²¹ ɦiɜ³³  z̥z̩²² tʰi⁴⁴ ŋv̩ʷ²³ ɕi⁵³ t͡sɜ³³ ləʔ⁴⁴] [IPA]

   Today I have things to do in the company, (so) I'm leaving early (lit. ahead).

2. (literary, formal or dialectal) we; us; our

   我國／我国  ―  wǒguó  ―  our country

   我市  ―  wǒshì  ―  our city

3. (obsolete) to stubbornly hold to one's own opinion
4. (obsolete) to kill
5. (obsolete) tilted
6. a surname

• See 我/derived terms § I (Chinese).

• See 我/derived terms § I (Chinese).

• See 我/derived terms § I (Chinese).

• “我”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01473
• “Entry #3153”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: が (ga, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: が (ga, Jōyō)
• Kun: わ (wa, 我, Jōyō); われ (ware, 我, Jōyō)

• 我(が)楽(らく)多(た) (garakuta)
• 怪我(けが) (kega)

From Old Japanese,[1] as the long form of 我 (wa) below.

Compound of 我 (wa, see below) +‎ れ (-re, nominalizing suffix).

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) わ​れ [wáꜜrè] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠ɾe̞]

我(われ) • (ware) 

1. first person singular pronoun: I, me, oneself
2. second person singular pronoun: you

In modern Japanese, most often encountered in the plural forms 我等 (warera) and 我我 (wareware, “we, us”).

From Old Japanese 我 (wa).[1]

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) わ​ [wáꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠]

我(わ) • (wa) 

1. (obsolete or dialect) first-person personal pronoun: I, me
   • 棟方志功

     わだばゴッホになる

     wa daba gohho ni naru

     (Aomori) I'll be a Gogh

In modern Japanese, most often encountered in fossilized phrases in combination with the Old Japanese possessive particle が (ga), such as 我が儘 (wagamama, “selfish; selfishness”, literally “just as I like”) or 我が国 (wagakuni, “my country, my homeland → Japan”).

• 我(わ)が (waga)
• 私(わたくし) (watakushi)

From Middle Chinese 我 (MC ŋɑ^X).

The Buddhist senses are a translation of Sanskrit आत्मन् (ātman, “self”).

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) が [gà] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]

我(が) • (ga) 

1. the ego, self
2. self-righteousness
3. (Buddhism) obstinacy

   Antonym: 無我 (muga)

4. (Hinduism) atman

   Synonym: アートマン (ātoman)

我(が) • (ga) 

1. self, oneself, myself
2. egotism, selfishness
3. (Buddhism) atman

From Middle Chinese 我 (MC ŋɑ^X).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [a̠(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [아(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 我 (eumhun 나 아 (na a))

1. (literary) Hanja form^? of 아 (“I; me”).
2. (literary) Hanja form^? of 아 (“we; us; our”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• On: がー (gā)
• Kun: わん (wan, 我ん)

• 吾

From Proto-Japonic *wa.

我 (wa) (kana わ)

1. first-person personal pronoun: I, me

For quotations using this term, see Citations:我.

• 我が (waga)

• Japanese: 我 (wa)

From 我 (wa, see above) +‎ れ (-re, “thing”, nominalizing suffix).

我 (ware) (kana われ)

1. first-person personal pronoun: I, me, oneself

For quotations using this term, see Citations:我.

• Japanese: 我 (ware)

Likely a compound of 我 (wa, see above) +‎ ろ (-ro, suffix indicating affection).

我 (waro₂) (kana わろ)

1. (regional, Southern Eastern Old Japanese) first person singular pronoun: I, me

For quotations using this term, see Citations:我.

The eastern variant of 我 (ware).[1] Appears to be 我 (wa) + ぬ (nu), appearing here not as the negative verb auxiliary but rather as a suffixing element of uncertain meaning. Appears in the Man'yōshū, volume 14 poem 3476.[2]

我 (wanu) (kana わぬ)

1. (regional, Northern Eastern Old Japanese) first person personal pronoun: I, me, oneself

For quotations using this term, see Citations:我.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

我 (a) (kana あ)

1. first-person singular pronoun: I, me

For quotations using this term, see Citations:我.

• 我が (aga)

• Japanese: あ (a)

From 我 (a, see above) +‎ れ (-re, nominalizing suffix).

我 (are) (kana あれ)

1. first-person singular pronoun: I, me

For quotations using this term, see Citations:我.

• Japanese: あれ (are)

我: Hán Việt readings: ngã[1][2][3][4], ngả (語(ngữ)可(khả)切(thiết))[5]
我: Nôm readings: ngả[1][2][3][6][5][4][7], ngã[1][2][3][5][4][7]

1. chữ Hán form of ngã, ngả (“(archaic) I; me”).
2. Nôm form of ngả (“way; direction”).
3. Nôm form of ngã (“to fall; to slip”).