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他
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Han character
他 (radical 9 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人心木 (OPD), four-corner 24212, composition ⿰亻也)
References
- KangXi: page 92, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 370
- Dae Jaweon: page 195, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 115, character 6
- Unihan data for U+4ED6
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
他 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 他 | *l̥ʰaːl |
| 拖 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls |
| 駞 | *l'aːl |
| 池 | *l'aːl, *l'al |
| 灺 | *ljalʔ |
| 鍦 | *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals |
| 虵 | *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal |
| 也 | *laːlʔ |
| 忚 | *hleːl |
| 髢 | *l'eːls |
| 杝 | *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal |
| 肔 | *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ |
| 馳 | *l'al |
| 阤 | *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ |
| 施 | *hljal, *hljals |
| 絁 | *hljal |
| 葹 | *hljal |
| 弛 | *hljalʔ |
| 箷 | *lal |
| 衪 | *lel, *lalʔ |
| 暆 | *lel |
| 迆 | *lal, *lalʔ |
| 酏 | *lal, *lalʔ |
| 匜 | *lal, *lalʔ |
| 迤 | *lalʔ |
| 扡 | *lalʔ |
| 崺 | *lalʔ |
| 貤 | *lals, *ɦljels, *lels |
| 地 | *l'els |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːl) : semantic 亻 (“man”) + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): taa1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thâ
- Jin (Wiktionary): ta1
- Min Dong (BUC): tă
- Min Nan (POJ): tha / thaⁿ
- Wu (Wiktionary): ta (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
- Wade-Giles: t'a1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
- IPA (key): /tʰa̠⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: taa1
- Yale: tā
- Cantonese Pinyin: taa1
- IPA (key): /tʰɑː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâ
- Hakka Romanization System: ta´
- Hagfa Pinyim: ta1
- IPA: /tʰa²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Jin
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: tă
- IPA (key): /tʰa⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha / thaⁿ
- Tâi-lô: tha / thann
- Phofsit Daibuun: taf, tvaf
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰa³³/, /tʰã³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰa⁴⁴/, /tʰã⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ta (T1)
- IPA (key): /tᴀ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 他 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 透 (6) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 託何切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/tʰɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/tʰɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/tʰɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/tʰa/ |
| Li Rong |
/tʰɑ/ |
| Wang Li |
/tʰɑ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/tʰɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
tuō |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 他 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
tā |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tha › |
| Old Chinese |
/*l̥ˤaj/ (E dialect: *l̥ˤ- > MC th-) |
| English | another |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 他 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14765 |
| Phonetic component |
也 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
佗 |
| Old Chinese |
/*l̥ʰaːl/ |
| Notes | 俗與佗通用 |
Definitions
他
- (Mandarin) he; him; she; her (originally gender-neutral; nowadays usually referring to males)
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- 萬物是藉著他造的；凡被造的，沒有一樣不是藉著他造的。 [MSC, trad.]
- 万物是借着他造的；凡被造的，没有一样不是借着他造的。 [MSC, simp.]
- From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 約翰福音 (John) 1:3
- Wànwù shì jièzhe tā zào de; fán bèi zào de, méiyǒu yī yàng bùshì jièzhe tā zào de. [Pinyin]
- All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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- other; another
See also
| Dialectal synonyms of 他 (“he”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 伊、彼、其、渠、斯、此 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 他 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 他、怹 |
| Taiwan | 他 | |
| Jinan | 他 | |
| Xi'an | 他 | |
| Wuhan | 他、他家 | |
| Chengdu | 他 | |
| Yangzhou | 他 | |
| Hefei | 他 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 佢 |
| Hong Kong | 佢、其、渠 | |
| Taishan | 佢 | |
| Yangjiang | 佢 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 佢 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 佢 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 佢 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 佢 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 佢 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 佢 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 佢 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 佢 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 他 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 佢 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 伊 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 伊 |
| Taipei | 伊 | |
| Chaozhou | 伊 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 伊 |
| Suzhou | 俚、俚倷、唔倷 | |
| Hangzhou | 他 | |
| Wenzhou | 渠 | |
| Chongming | 伊 | |
| Danyang | 他 | |
| Jinhua | 渠 | |
| Tangxi | 渠、渠儂 | |
| Ningbo | 渠、渠儂 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 他 |
| Shuangfeng | 他 | |
| Standard Chinese personal pronouns | |||
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| Person | Singular | Plural | |
| 1st | — | 我 (wǒ) | 我們／我们 (wǒmen) |
| inclusive | 咱們／咱们 (zánmen) | ||
| 2nd | male/indefinite | 你 (nǐ) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) |
| female | 妳／你 (nǐ) | 妳們／你们 (nǐmen) | |
| deity | 祢 (nǐ) | 祢們／祢们 (nǐmen) | |
| polite | 您 (nín) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) 您們／您们 (nínmen) |
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| 3rd | male/indefinite | 他 | 他們／他们 (tāmen) |
| female | 她 (tā) | 她們／她们 (tāmen) | |
| deity | 祂 (tā) | 祂們／祂们 (tāmen) | |
| animal | 牠／它 (tā) | 牠們／它们 (tāmen) | |
| inanimate | 它 (tā) | 它們／它们 (tāmen) | |
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
他
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
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| Kanji in this term |
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| 他 |
|
ほか Grade: 3 |
| kun'yomi |
| Kanji in this term |
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| 他 |
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た Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
他 (hiragana ほか, romaji hoka) (alternative reading hiragana た, romaji ta)
- another, other, some other
- この他にも行き先がありますか。
- Kono hoka ni mo yukisaki ga arimasu ka.
- Do you have any other destinations?
- この事業は他を利するために開始されました。
- Kono jigyō wa ta o risuru tame ni kaishi saremashita.
- This project was started in order to benefit others.
- この他にも行き先がありますか。
Derived terms
Idioms
Idioms
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References
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
他 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune-Reischauer t'a)
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Vietnamese
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