他tā

他

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Modern simplified form (簡體). 他 (tā, "he") remains unchanged from its traditional counterpart, combining the person radical (亻) with 也, which originally depicted a snake but here serves a phonetic role. This third-person pronoun emerged in classical Chinese to distinguish males from the feminine 她 and the neutral 它.

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Shuowen

He. The character is formed by the person radical 人 beside the phonetic 也, picturing a human figure in bronze and bone inscriptions where it originally meant “another” or “other”; the phonetic element was added for its sound, and the combination later came to serve as the third‑person pronoun.

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tā· HSK 1· Radical 人

他tā

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