她

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 也. Originally a variant of 姐 ("elder sister"), later repurposed as a feminine third-person pronoun. Linguist Liu Bannong is credited with coining this use in September 1920.

Han character

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

References

• 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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		她

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tā (ta¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taa¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): thâ
• Min Nan (POJ): tha / thaⁿ
• Wu (WT Romanisation): ta (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: t'a¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰa̠⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: taa¹
    • Yale: tā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taa¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâ
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /tʰa²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha / thaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tha / thann
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰa³⁴/, /tʰã³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: ta (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /tᴀ⁵³/

Pronoun

她

1. she, her

   • 她去了。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Tā qù le. [Pinyin]

     She went away.

   • 我認識她。 [MSC, trad.]

     我认识她。 [MSC, simp.]

     Wǒ rènshi tā. [Pinyin]

     I know her.

   • Genesis 3:12

     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, trad. and simp.]

     Nà rén shuō, nǐ suǒ cìgĕi wǒ, yǔ wǒ tóngjū de nǚrén, tā bǎ nà shù shàng de guǒzǐ jǐ 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 notes

• Occasionally, 他 may be used for both genders.

See also

Standard Chinese personal pronouns

Person	Singular	Plural
1st	我	我們／我们 咱們／咱们 (inclusive)
2nd	你	你們／你们
2nd (polite)	您
3rd (man/indefinite)	他	他們／他们
3rd (woman)	她	她們／她们
3rd (inanimate)	它 牠／它	它們／它们 牠們／牠们

• (Classical Chinese, gender and number neutral - he, she, it, they) 其
• (Min Nan, Wu, gender neutral - he, she, it) 伊
• (Cantonese, gender neutral - he, she, it) 佢, 渠
• 他 he, him
• 它 it
• 祂 he (deity)
• 牠／它 it (animal)

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Japanese

Kanji

她

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

她 (tha)

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