它

		-
simp. and trad.		它

See also: 牠

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a snake. Later borrowed for the then-homophonous third-person pronoun ("he/she/it"). Today 他 is used for "he" and 她 for "she". "Snake" is now written as 蛇.

Han character

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

References

• KangXi: page 281, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7057
• Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 910, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5B83

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		它

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/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (它, reconstructed)
Character (它), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 透 (6) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 託何切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tʰɑ/	/tʰɑ/	/tʰɑ/	/tʰɑ/	/tʰa/	/tʰɑ/	/tʰɑ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (它, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
它								tā								‹ tha ›								/*l̥ ˤaj/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
它					12210					它					歌					1					佗					/*l̥ʰaːl/

Pronoun

它

1. (inanimate object, animal) it

   狗餓了，所以我們餵它。 [MSC, trad.]

   狗饿了，所以我们喂它。 [MSC, simp.]

   Gǒu è le, suǒyǐ wǒmen wèi tā. [Pinyin]

   The dog was hungry, so we fed it.

   它通過遙控工作。 [MSC, trad.]

   它通过遥控工作。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā tōngguò yáokòng gōngzuò. [Pinyin]

   It works by remote control.

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

它

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: た (ta), しゃ (sha)
• Kun: へび (hebi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

它 (tha, dà, đà)

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