她

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 255, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6046
• Dae Jaweon: page 518, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1029, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5979

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		她

Glyph originEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 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. Linguist Liu Bannong is credited with coining this use around 1910s (Bi, 2013).

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tā (ta¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taa¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thâ
• Min Nan (POJ): tha / thaⁿ
• Wu (Wiktionary): ta (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: t'a¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰa̠⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: taa¹
    • Yale: tā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taa¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ta´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ta¹
    • IPA: /tʰa²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha / thaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tha / thann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taf, tvaf
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ta (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /tᴀ⁵³/

DefinitionsEdit

她

1. she, her

   她去了。  ―  Tā qù le.  ―  She went away.

   我認識她。 / 我认识她。  ―  Wǒ rènshi tā.  ―  I know 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.

Usage notesEdit

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

See alsoEdit

No major Chinese dialect distinguishes between “he”, “she” and “it” in spoken form, and Mandarin 他／她／它 (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”)
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical	Classical	伊、彼、其、渠、斯、此
Mandarin	Beijing	他、怹
	Taiwan	他
	Jinan	他
	Xi'an	他
	Wuhan	他、他家
	Chengdu	他
	Yangzhou	他
	Hefei	他
Cantonese	Guangzhou	佢
	Hong Kong	佢
	Taishan	佢
	Yangjiang	佢
Gan	Nanchang	佢
Hakka	Meixian	佢
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	佢
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	佢
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	佢
	Dongshi (Dabu)	佢
	Taiwanese Raoping	佢
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	佢
Jin	Taiyuan	他
Min Bei	Jian'ou	佢
Min Dong	Fuzhou	伊
Min Nan	Xiamen	伊
	Taipei	伊
	Chaozhou	伊
Wu	Shanghai	伊
	Suzhou	俚、俚倷、唔倷
	Wenzhou	佢
Xiang	Changsha	他
	Shuangfeng	他

Standard Chinese personal pronouns
Person		Singular	Plural
1st	—	我 (wǒ)	我們／我们 (wǒmen)
	inclusive		咱們／咱们 (zánmen)
2nd	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	male/indefinite	他 (tā)	他們／他们 (tāmen)
	female	她	她們／她们 (tāmen)
	deity	祂 (tā)	祂們／祂们 (tāmen)
	animal	牠／它 (tā)	牠們／它们 (tāmen)
	inanimate	它 (tā)	它們／它们 (tāmen)

• 妳 (nǐ, “(feminine) you”)

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 她

• 她們／她们 (tāmen)

• 崇她社

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

她

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

她 (tha)

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