我

Why does 我 look like this?

The character '我' was originally a pictograph of a rake-like weapon with sharp teeth. Over time, it lost its literal meaning of a weapon and was borrowed to represent the first-person pronoun 'I' or 'me'. It is now treated as a single unit, often categorized under the radical '戈' (gē), which means 'spear' or 'halberd'.