# 它

| 它 | U+5B83, &#23427; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B83 |
| ← 宂 [U+5B82] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 宄 → [U+5B84] |

## Translingual
### Han character

它 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十心 (JP), four-corner 3071$_1$, composition ⿱宀匕)

#### Derived characters

* 佗, 沱, 陀, 柁, 蛇, 舵, 詑(𫍡), 鉈(铊), 駝(驼), 鴕(鸵)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 281, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7057
* Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 910, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5B83

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 它 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 佗 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːl |
| 拕 | *l̥ʰaːl, *l'aːlʔ |
| 它 | *l̥ʰaːl |
| 蛇 | *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal |
| 袉 | *l̥ʰaːlʔ, *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ |
| 鴕 | *l'aːl |
| 駝 | *l'aːl |
| 紽 | *l'aːl |
| 鮀 | *l'aːl |
| 陀 | *l'aːl |
| 沱 | *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ |
| 跎 | *l'aːl |
| 詑 | *l'aːl, *l'aːlʔ, *hlel, *lal, *l̥ʰoːl |
| 酡 | *l'aːl |
| 迱 | *l'aːl |
| 舵 | *l'aːlʔ |
| 柁 | *l'aːlʔ |
| 鉈 | *ɦljaːl, *hljal |
Pictogram (象形) : a snake. This is now written as the derivative 蛇 (OC *l̥ʰaːl, *ɦljaːl, *lal).
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”.

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tā (ta$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): taa$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thâ
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thaⁿ / tha / tho / tô
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$ta
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tā
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ta
*** Wade–Giles: tʻa$^1$
*** Yale: tā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
*** Palladius: та (ta)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: taa$^1$
*** Yale: tā
*** Cantonese Pinyin: taa$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ta$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaː⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâ
*** Hakka Romanization System: ta$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ta$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰa²⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thaⁿ
*** Tâi-lô: thann
*** Phofsit Daibuun: tvaf
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰã³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰã⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha
*** Tâi-lô: tha
*** Phofsit Daibuun: taf
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tʰa⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tho
*** Tâi-lô: tho
*** Phofsit Daibuun: toy
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /tʰo⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô
*** Tâi-lô: tô
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dooi
*** IPA (Xiamen): /to²⁴/
* thaⁿ/tha - vernacular;
* tho/tô - literary.
* Middle Chinese: tha
Rime :
| Character | 它 |
| 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 |
| Baxter | tha |
| 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 |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | to$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤaj/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːl/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 它 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tā |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tha › |
| Old Chinese | /*l̥ˁaj/ |
| English | another |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 它 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12210 |
| Phonetic component | 它 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 佗 |
| Old Chinese | /*l̥ʰaːl/ |

#### Definitions

它
* third-person singular pronoun for inanimate objects; it
       Zhè shì yī fèn fēicháng zhòngyào de wénjiàn, qiānwàn bùyào bǎ tā diūdiào. [Pinyin]
       This is a very important document; you must not lose it.
* (chiefly simplified Chinese) third-person singular pronoun for animals; it
* (obsolete) general third-person singular pronoun; he; she; they (singular); it
* A dummy pronoun.
    Alternative form: 他
** c. 1980s – 1992, 单田芳, 21:43 from the start, in 三侠五义（评书）, 180 episodes edition, episode 3:
       Gěi wǒ lái tā èr liǎng jiǔ. [Pinyin]
       (please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2001, Chiung Yao, 36:26 from the start, in 情深深雨濛濛, episode 2 (Mainland editions):
       Rúguǒ nǐ chàng de jiàozuò, yī ge yuè zhuàn tā ge yī èr bǎi kuài qián shì shǎo bù liǎo de. [Pinyin]
       (please add an English translation of this quotation)
* crooked; evil
* a surname

#### Usage notes

* In traditional Chinese, there is generally a distinction between 它 and 牠; the former refers exclusively to inanimate objects, while the latter refers exclusively to animals.
* In simplified Chinese, only 它 is used for both inanimate objects and animals.

#### See also

Standard Mandarin Chinese personal pronouns :
| Person | Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st | — | 我 (wǒ) | 我們／我们 (wǒmen) |
| 1st | inclusive | 我 (wǒ) | 咱們／咱们 (zánmen) |
| 2nd | male/indefinite | 你 (nǐ) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) |
| 2nd | female | 妳／你 (nǐ) | 妳們／你们 (nǐmen) |
| 2nd | deity | 祢 (nǐ) | 祢們／祢们 (nǐmen) |
| 2nd | polite | 您 (nín) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) 您們／您们 (nínmen) |
| 3rd | male/indefinite | 他 (tā) | 他們／他们 (tāmen) |
| 3rd | female | 她 (tā) | 她們／她们 (tāmen) |
| 3rd | deity | 祂 (tā) | 祂們／祂们 (tāmen) |
| 3rd | animal | 牠／它 (tā) | 牠們／它们 (tāmen) |
| 3rd | inanimate | 它 (tā) | 它們／它们 (tāmen) |
* (Classical Chinese, gender and number neutral - he, she, it, they) 其 (qí)
* (Hokkien, Teochew, Wu, gender neutral - he, she, it) 伊
* (Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, gender neutral - he, she, it) 佢, 渠

#### Compounds

* 之死靡它
* 其它 (qítā)
* 奇請它比／奇请它比
* 奢摩它
* 委它 (wēiyí)
* 它人
* 它們／它们
* 它名
* 它山之石，可以為錯／它山之石，可以为错
* 它岐
* 它年
* 它心
* 它所
* 它故
* 它日
* 它時／它时
* 它法
* 它界
* 它腸／它肠
* 它門／它门
* 拉它
* 橐它
* 無它／无它
* 磨它子
* 自它
* 靡它
* 駘它／骀它

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tuō (tuo$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tuō
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tuo
*** Wade–Giles: tʻo$^1$
*** Yale: twō
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuo
*** Palladius: то (to)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

它
* Used in 它它藉藉／它它借借.
* Alternative form of 駝／驼 (tuó)

### Pronunciation 3

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yí (yi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yí
*** Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yí
*** Wade–Giles: i$^2$
*** Yale: yí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
*** Palladius: и (i)
*** Sinological IPA : /i³⁵/

#### Definitions

它
* Only used in 它它.

### Pronunciation 4

* For pronunciation and definitions of 它 – see 蛇 (“snake; serpent; illegal immigrant; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 蛇).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: た (ta)
* Kan-on: た (ta)
* Kun: へび (hebi, 它)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

它: Hán Nôm readings: dà, đà, tha
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