她

Translingual

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)

1. she, her

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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Cantonese

Pronoun

她 (traditional and simplified, Romanization taa1)

1. she

• • • Penkyamp: tä

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Hmong

Hanzi

她

1. third person prounoun: she, her

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Japanese

Kanji

她

Readings

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

她 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin tā)

1. she

   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。

   Nà rén shuō , nǐ suǒ cìgĕi wǒ , yǔ wǒ tóngjū de nǚrén , tā bà nà shù shàng de guǒzi gĕi wǒ , wǒ jiù chī le .

   And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

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Vietnamese

Han character

她 (tha)