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(tā) - he, him in Mandarin

Traditional: 他

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[tʰa˥] HSK 1
#7 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

he, him

Word origin

他 (tā) means 'he, him'. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 亻(person) radical for meaning and 也 (yě) as the phonetic component; it once meant 'other' before specialising as the masculine third-person pronoun.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
亻(person radical) + 也 (yě, phonetic)

Stroke order

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Examples

He is my good friend; we have known each other for ten years.

He cycles to work every day.

He says he will come tomorrow.

He is cooking in the kitchen.

He is very serious about his work.

Where this fits

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 他.

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This word is part of lesson 1.