(tā) - it (non-human) in Mandarin
tāTraditional: 它
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
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This cat is very cute; it is called Xiao Bai.
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This problem is very difficult; I do not know how to solve it.
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This book is very interesting; you should read it.
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It is sleeping under the table.
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It does not like this taste.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 它.
Used in
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