(tā) - he, him in Mandarin
tāTraditional: 他
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
他
Examples
,。
He is my good friend; we have known each other for ten years.
骑。
He cycles to work every day.
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He says he will come tomorrow.
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He is cooking in the kitchen.
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He is very serious about his work.
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 他.
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