它们
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 它們
They, them: the plural pronoun for animals or things. It is 它 'it' plus the plural ending 们, and sounds exactly like 他们 and 她们. In speech it is used mostly for animals; for a group of things Chinese usually repeats the noun.
Chúng, chúng nó: đại từ số nhiều chỉ con vật hoặc đồ vật. Gồm 它 (nó) và hậu tố số nhiều 们, đọc y hệt 他们, 她们. Khi nói, chủ yếu dùng cho con vật; với đồ vật, người ta thường lặp lại danh từ.
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 “它们” mean?
They, them: the plural pronoun for animals or things. It is 它 'it' plus the plural ending 们, and sounds exactly like 他们 and 她们. In speech it is used mostly for animals; for a group of things Chinese usually repeats the noun.
Is “它们” formal or informal?
它们 is generally neutral.