他们
tā men
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 他們
'They' or 'them' for people: a group of men, or of men and women together. An all-female group is 她们 and animals or things are 它们, yet all three sound the same, tāmen, and differ only on paper. 他们的 means 'their'.
“Họ”, “bọn họ”: ngôi thứ ba số nhiều, chỉ một nhóm nam hoặc một nhóm có cả nam lẫn nữ. Nhóm toàn nữ viết là 她们, con vật và đồ vật là 它们; cả ba đều đọc tāmen, chỉ khác nhau khi viết. 他们的 là “của họ”.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “他们” mean?
'They' or 'them' for people: a group of men, or of men and women together. An all-female group is 她们 and animals or things are 它们, yet all three sound the same, tāmen, and differ only on paper. 他们的 means 'their'.
Is “他们” formal or informal?
他们 is generally neutral.