Character: 我
Modern (Beijing) reading: wǒ ě
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋhājʔ
Classic Old Chinese: ŋhā́j
Western Han Chinese: ŋhā́j
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋhǟ́
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋhā́
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋhā́
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋhā́
Middle Chinese: ŋấ
Fanqie: 莪可
Rhyme class: 哿
English meaning : I, we; my, our (inclusive, according to Yakhontov)
Russian meaning[s]: 1) я, мой; мы, наш; 2) свой, своя сторона (в противоположность, например, врагу); 3) личный, частный; эгоистический; 4) Э (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 施身自謂也. 或說. 我頃頓也. 從戈. 從{我}. {我}或說. 古垂字. 一曰. 古殺字. 凡我之屬皆從我.
Comments: The form 吾 *ŋhāʔ (a later subjective/objective counterpart of 我) is still used very rarely during Early Zhou; several times there occurs also an emphatic form ご *ŋhāŋ "I for my part". Initial *ŋh- is suggested here by archaic Min forms: Chaozhou ua3, Jianou ŋuoi8 // uɛ8 (see ROCP 126).
Radical: 62
Four-angle index: 6767
Karlgren code: 0002 a-g
Jianchuan Bai: ŋo3
Dali Bai: ŋo3
Bijiang Bai: ŋo2
Shijing occurrences: 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 10.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 17.2, 17.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.3, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.3, 27.4, 28.3, 29.1, 29.2, 29.4, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 31.2, 32.2, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3, 34.4, 35.2, 35.3, 35.5, 35.6, 39.4, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, 41.1, 41.2, 41.3, 42.1, 42.2, 45.1, 45.2, 48.1, 48.2, 48.3, 49.1, 49.2, 54.1, 54.2, 54.4, 58.1, 58.2, 58.4
