他 tā
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tā
pronoun
he; him
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Personal Pronoun 人称代词
Notes: 他 is a singular third person masculine pronoun or used when the sex of the person is unknown or unimportant (NCCED '他' 2; Sun 2006, loc. 357). 他 is often followed by 自己, empahsizing the pronoun. For example, 他自己都不耐烦了 'Even he lost his patience ...' (Lao She, 2003, p. 232) The use of 他 as a personal pronoun began in colloqial passages of post-Han texts (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 80; Norman 1988, pp. 118-119). 他 is the 12th most frequently used word in the Beijing Language Institute's 1985 frequency wordlist (Ho 2002, '他' 1). -
tā
adverb
another aspect
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: (Guoyu '他' tā adv) -
tā
noun
other; another; some other
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 另外. For example, in the Classic of Rites, 在他國 'being in another state.' (Legge, 1885, Questions of Zeng-zi 禮記‧曾子問) (Guoyu '他' tā n; Ho 2002, '他' 2; Kroll 2015 '他' 1; NCCED '他' 1) -
tā
pronoun
everybody
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: Used in the pattern 你也... 他也...(NCCED '他' 3) -
tā
adjective
other
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 另外 (Guoyu '他' tā adj) -
tuō
pronoun
other; another; some other
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Used as an indefinite pronoun (Guoyu '他' tuō; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 78, 97)
Contained in
- 甲基安非他命 methamphetamine
- 爱他注意(愛他注意) altruism
- 他乡遇故知(他鄉遇故知) meeting an old friend in a foreign place
- 克他命 ketamine
- 汉他病毒(漢他病毒) Hantavirus (a family deadly rodent-borne viruses) responsible for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome or cardiopulmonary syndrome
- 吉他 guitar
- 其他人 other people
- 安非他命 amphetamine
- 假手他人 to commission somebody to perform a task
- 难怪他伤心(難怪他傷心) no wonder he is upset
- 别无他物(別無他物) nothing else
- 他牺牲了生命(他犧牲了生命) he sacrificed his life
- 他者性 otherness
- 王顾左右而言他(王顧左右而言他) the king looked left and right and then talked of other things
- 他们(他們) they
- 维他命(維他命) a vitamin
- 他人 someone else; other people
- 他方 other places
- 利他主义(利他主義) altruism
- 巽他语(巽他語) Sunda language
- 他妈(他媽) damn!; cursing
- 他者 others; (sociology, philosophy) the Other
- 异国他乡(異國他鄉) foreign lands and places; living as expatriate
- 他者化 othering; otherization
- 电吉他(電吉他) electric guitar
- 巽他海峡(巽他海峽) Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java
- 马尔他人(馬爾他人) Maltese (person)
- 别无他法(別無他法) there is no alternative
- 给他加上一块钱(給他加上一塊錢) give him one a few moe dollars
- 马耳他里拉(馬耳他里拉) Maltese lira
- 扶他林 voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller
- 吉他谱(吉他譜) guitar tablature
- 他喵的 drat; frick
- 他国(他國) other countries
- 管他三七二十一 who cares; no matter what; regardless of the consequences
- 辛伐他汀 simvastatin
- 利他 to help others
Also contained in
室利因他拉蒂 、 北达科他 、 瓦勒他 、 萨他泥湿伐罗 、 劫比他国 、 巴吞他尼 、 他信 、 他叻瓦滴 、 北达科他州 、 萨他泥湿伐罗国 、 犹他州 、 利他能 、 马尔他 、 利他灵
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 147
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 125
- 第三十一回 Chapter 31 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 119
- 第二回 Chapter 46 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 117
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 113
- 第三十二回 Chapter 32 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 111
- 第七十六回 Chapter 76 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 111
- 第二回 Chapter 65 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 109
- 第二回 Chapter 77 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 99
- 第三十四回 Chapter 34 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 98