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Mythic Mandarin

他 (tā): meaning and stroke order

他 (tā) means (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his.

他

Simplified
他
Traditional
他 (same form)
Pinyin
tā

Stroke order of 他

他

  • tā (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 他

  1. tā
    • (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
    • (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])

Radical and structure

他
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 也 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 他

他 in our stories

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  • 他家有五个人。

    tā jiā yǒu wǔ gè rén

    There are five people in his family.

    From the story A photo HSK 1

  • 他打开他的黑包。

    tā dǎkāi tā de hēi bāo

    He opens his black bag.

    From the story Not my bag HSK 1

  • 晚上八点，他到了上海。

    wǎnshang bā diǎn tā dào le Shànghǎi

    At eight in the evening he arrived in Shanghai.

    From the story At the airport HSK 2

Where you learn it

他 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 他

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).