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她 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女心木 (VPD), four-corner 44412, composition ⿰女也)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 255, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6046
• Dae Jaweon: page 518, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1029, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5979

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Originally a variant of 姐 (jiě, “elder sister”). Later repurposed as a feminine third-person pronoun influenced by European languages, with the glyph being the result of replacing the 人 (rén, “person”) radical in 他 (tā) with 女 (“woman”). Linguist Liu Bannong is credited with coining this use around the 1910s, in turn replacing a precursor form of 他女 in print (Bi, 2013).

• Mandarin
  (Pinyin): tā (ta1)
  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ
• Cantonese (Jyutping): taa1
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thâ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thaⁿ / tha / tho
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1ta

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: tā
    * Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: ta
    * Wade–Giles: tʻa1
    * Yale: tā
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
    * Palladius: та (ta)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /tʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    * Jyutping: taa1
    * Yale: tā
    * Cantonese Pinyin: taa1
    * Guangdong Romanization: ta1
    * Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    * Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâ
    * Hakka Romanization System: taˊ
    * Hagfa Pinyim: ta1
    * Sinological IPA: /tʰa²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thaⁿ
    * Tâi-lô: thann
    * Phofsit Daibuun: tvaf
    * IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰã³³/
    * IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰã⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha
    * Tâi-lô: tha
    * Phofsit Daibuun: taf
    * IPA (Xiamen): /tʰa⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
    * Tâi-lô: tho
    * Phofsit Daibuun: toy
    * IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴⁴/
    * IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo³³/
    * IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /tʰo⁴⁴/

Note:

• thaⁿ/tha - vernacular;

• tho - literary.

• Wu

  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    * Wugniu: 1ta
    * MiniDict: ta平
    * Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1ta
    * Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ta⁵³/

她

1. she, her [from 1910s]
   她去了。 ― Tā qù le. ― She went away.
   我認識她。／我认识她。 ― Wǒ rènshi tā. ― I know her.
   • 教我如何不想她！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad. and _simp._]
     From: 1920, Liu Bannong
     Jiào wǒ rúhé bù xiǎng tā! [Pinyin]
     How can I stop missing her! (lit., "how can one make me not think of her!")
   • 那人說：「你所賜給我、與我同居的女人，她把那樹上的果子給我，我就吃了。」 [MSC, _trad._]
     那人说：「你所赐给我、与我同居的女人，她把那树上的果子给我，我就吃了。」 [MSC, _simp._]
     From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 創世記 (Genesis) 3:12
     Nà rén shuō: “Nǐ suǒ cì gěi wǒ, yǔ wǒ tóngjū de nǚrén, tā bǎ nà shù shàng de guǒzi gěi wǒ, wǒ jiù chī le.” [Pinyin]
     And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

• Occasionally, 他 (tā) may be used for both genders.

No major Chinese language distinguishes between “he”, “she” and “it” in spoken form, and Mandarin 他／她／牠／它／祂 (tā) is the only instance where such a distinction is made in written form. Thus see the table below for words for “she” in other varieties of Chinese.

Dialectal synonyms of 他 (“he”) [map]

Standard Mandarin Chinese personal pronouns

| | singular | plural | | | | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1st person | — | 我 (wǒ) | 我們／我们 (wǒmen) | | inclusive | 咱們／咱们 (zánmen) | | | | 2nd person | male/indefinite | 你 (nǐ) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) | | female | 妳／你 (nǐ) | 妳們／你们 (nǐmen) | | | deity | 祢 (nǐ) | 祢們／祢们 (nǐmen) | | | polite | 您 (nín) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen)您們／您们 (nínmen) | | | 3rd person | male/indefinite | 他 (tā) | 他們／他们 (tāmen) | | female | 她 (tā) | 她們／她们 (tāmen) | | | deity | 祂 (tā) | 祂們／祂们 (tāmen) | | | polite | 怹 (tān) | 他們／他们 (tāmen)怹們／怹们 | | | animal | 牠／它 (tā) | 牠們／它们 (tāmen) | | | inanimate | 它 (tā) | 它們／它们 (tāmen) | |

• 妳／你 (nǐ, “(feminine) you”)

• 她們 / 她们

• 崇她社

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): i

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī: i
    * Tâi-lô: i
    * Phofsit Daibuun: y
    * IPA (Xiamen): /i⁴⁴/
    * IPA (Quanzhou): /i³³/
    * IPA (Zhangzhou): /i⁴⁴/
    * IPA (Taipei): /i⁴⁴/
    * IPA (Kaohsiung): /i⁴⁴/

她

1. (Hokkien) Alternative form of 伊 (i, “she, her”)
   • 2010, “三心兩意 [Don't Think Too Much]”, 巴布 (lyrics), 林東松 (music)‎[1]performed by 黃文星 [Hwang Weng-Sing] and 曾昱嘉 [Tseng Yu-Jia]:
     她的相片已經丟治床邊 還是滿心悲哀 [Taiwanese Hokkien, _trad._]
     她的相片已经丢治床边 还是满心悲哀 [Taiwanese Hokkien, _simp._]
     i ê siòng-phìⁿ í-keng tàn tī chhn̂g-piⁿ, iá-sī móa-sim pi-ai [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
     Her photo is already thrown to my bedside, but my heart is still filled with sorrow

她

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. she, her

• On (unclassified): ち (chi)、_じ_ (ji)、_しゃ_ (sha)、_た_ (ta)、_い_ (i)
• Kun: あざる (azaru, 她る)

她: Hán Nôm readings: tha

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