它
HSK 2freq #114
Meanings
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- 1.it
- 1.it (pronoun for an animal)
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Wiktionary
- 1.third-person singular pronoun for inanimate objects; it
- 2.third-person singular pronoun for animals; it
- 3.general third-person singular pronoun; he; she; they (singular); it
- 4.A dummy pronoun.
- 5.crooked; evil
- 6.a surname
- 7.used in 它它藉藉／它它借借
- 8.only used in 它它
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): a snake. This is now written as the derivative 蛇 (OC *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal). Jiajie (假借): the character was later borrowed for the then-homophonous third-person pronoun (“he/she/it”). Today 他 (tā) is used for male or gender-unspecified “he” and 她 (tā) for “she”.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
別碰它。
Don't touch it.
它很大。
It's really big.
不管它。
Skip it.
它很大。
It's very big.
它多貴?
How much is it?
它真重。
It's pretty heavy.
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Derived terms
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