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See also: 牠

Stroke order
5 strokes

它 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十心 (JP), four-corner 30711, composition ⿱宀匕)

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | 佗 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːl | | 拕 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːlʔ | | 它 | *l̥ʰaːl | | 蛇 | *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal | | 袉 | *l̥ʰaːlʔ, *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ | | 鴕 | *l'aːl | | 駝 | *l'aːl | | 紽 | *l'aːl | | 鮀 | *l'aːl | | 陀 | *l'aːl | | 沱 | *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ | | 跎 | *l'aːl | | 詑 | *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ, *hlel, *lal, *l̥ʰoːl | | 酡 | *l'aːl | | 迱 | *l'aːl | | 舵 | *l'aːlʔ | | 柁 | *l'aːlʔ | | 鉈 | *ɦljaːl, *hljal |

Pictogram (象形): a snake. This is now written as the derivative 蛇 (OC *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal).

The character was later borrowed for the then-homophonous third-person pronoun (“he/she/it”). Today 他 (tā) is used for male or gender-unspecified “he” and 她 (tā) for “she”.

trad. 它/牠
simp. 它
牠 - chiefly used to refer to animals

Note:

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 它
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) tā
MiddleChinese ‹ tha ›
OldChinese /*l̥ˁaj/
English another
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 它
Reading # 1/1
No. 12210
Phoneticcomponent 它
Rimegroup 歌
Rimesubdivision 1
CorrespondingMC rime 佗
OldChinese /*l̥ʰaːl/

它

  1. third-person singular pronoun for inanimate objects; it
    這是一份非常重要的文件，千萬不要把它丟掉。 [MSC, _trad._]
    这是一份非常重要的文件，千万不要把它丢掉。 [MSC, _simp._]
    Zhè shì yī fèn fēicháng zhòngyào de wénjiàn, qiānwàn bùyào bǎ tā diūdiào. [Pinyin]
    This is a very important document; you must not lose it.
  2. (chiefly simplified Chinese) third-person singular pronoun for animals; it
  3. (obsolete) general third-person singular pronoun; he; she; they (singular); it
  4. A dummy pronoun.
    Alternative form: 他
  5. crooked; evil
  6. a surname

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) | |

simp. and trad. 它

它

  1. Used in 它它藉藉／它它借借.
  2. Alternative form of 駝 / 驼 (tuó)
simp. and trad. 它

它

  1. Only used in 它它.

它

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它: Hán Nôm readings: dà, đà, tha

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