(tā) - she, her in Mandarin

tā

Traditional: 她

[tʰa˥] HSK 1

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Translation

she, her

Word origin

她 (tā) means 'she, her'. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 女 (woman) radical for meaning and 也 (yě) as the phonetic component; it was coined in the early twentieth century to distinguish the feminine third person.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 女 (woman radical) + 也 (yě, phonetic)

Stroke order

她

Examples

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She is a very experienced doctor.

。

She likes to go hiking at the weekend.

。

I do not know where she lives.

。

She gets up very early every morning.

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She wants to study in Britain.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 她.

她们tā menthey, them (female-only group)

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