它

Stroke order

它 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十心 (JP), four-corner 3071₁, composition ⿱宀匕)

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

• 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

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

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”.

它

1. third-person singular pronoun for inanimate objects; it

   這是一份非常重要的文件，千萬不要把它丟掉。 [MSC, trad.]
   这是一份非常重要的文件，千万不要把它丢掉。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè shì yī fèn fēicháng zhòngyào de wénjiàn, qiānwàn bùyào bǎ tā diūdiào.

   This is a very important document; you must not lose it.

2. (chiefly simplified Chinese) third-person singular pronoun for animals; it
3. (obsolete) general third-person singular pronoun; he; she; they (singular); it
4. 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:

     给我来它二两酒。 [MSC, simp.]
     給我來它二兩酒。 [MSC, trad.]

     Gěi wǒ lái tā èr liǎng jiǔ.

     (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):

     如果你唱得叫座，一个月赚它个一二百块钱是少不了的。 [MSC, simp.]
     如果你唱得叫座，一個月賺它個一二百塊錢是少不了的。 [MSC, trad.]

     Rúguǒ nǐ chàng de jiàozuò, yī ge yuè zhuàn tā ge yī èr bǎi kuài qián shì shǎo bù liǎo de.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. crooked; evil
6. a surname

• 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.

• (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

它

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

它

1. Only used in 它它.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

它: Hán Nôm readings: dà, đà, tha

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