(tā) - it (non-human) in Mandarin
tāTraditional: 它
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Translation
it (non-human)
Word origin
它 (tā) means 'it' for non-human referents. It originally depicted a snake (a sense now written 蛇) under the 宀 element, and was later borrowed as the inanimate third-person pronoun.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- an early graph for a snake, borrowed for 'it'
Stroke order
它
Examples
，。
That is my cat, its name is Xiaobai.
，。
This book is very interesting, you should read it.
，？
My phone is missing - have you seen it?
，。
This cat, it is very cute.
红。
Its colour is red.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 它.
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