# 牠

| 牠 | U+7260, &#29280; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7260 |
| ← 牟 [U+725F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 牡 → [U+7261] |

## Translingual
### Han character

牠 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心木 (HQPD), four-corner 2451$_2$, composition ⿰牜也)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 9
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19931
* Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1803, character 1
* Unihan data for U+7260

## Chinese
### Etymology
#### it (all non-human objects)

In Qian Xuantong's discussion on the creation of new vernacular pronouns, advocates for this form intended to evoke the left radical of 物 (wù, “thing”) rather than having the semantic implications of 牛 (niú, “bovine”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tā (ta$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): taa$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thaⁿ / tha / tho
* 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/
* 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/
* thaⁿ/tha - vernacular;
* tho - literary.

### Definitions

牠
* (animal) it
       Gǒu è le, suǒyǐ wǒmen wèi tā chī dōngxī. [Pinyin]
       The dog was hungry, so we fed it.
* (obsolete) Synonym of 它
       From: 樂嗣炳 著：“世界勢力最大的語言”
       Dǒngdé shìjiè shìlì zuìdà de yǔyán ⸺ Zhōngguó de Guóyǔ ⸺ de rénmen! Nǐ yìnggāi zěnyàng péiyǎng tā, fāyáng tā? [Pinyin]
       Those who understand the most influential language in the world (that is, the national language of China)! How should you develop and promote it?

#### Usage notes

* In simplified Chinese, 它 (tā) is used instead for all non-human objects.

### Compounds

* 牠們／它们

### 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) |

### References

* ↑ 錢玄同: <「他」與「他們」兩個詞兒的分化之討論> 1922
* “牠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: た (ta)
* Kan-on: た (ta)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

牠: Hán Nôm readings: tha
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