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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tā | ta1
English translation
it
it; other

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Number of strokes

5

Traditional form

Contains the radical

gài

Part of speech

Pronoun / 代词 dài cí Dàicí

Etymology of

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Positional decomposition

宀匕

Explanation

Pictograph of a snake, now written as shé . The current use as a pronoun is a phonetic loan.

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Example sentences using

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蛋白 dàn bái dào 它们 tā men sǒng .

Beat the egg whites until they peak.

这个 zhè ge 脉冲 mài chōng Néng 迫使 pò shǐ 断路器 duàn lù qì 切断 qiē duàn de 主机 zhǔ jī 30 miǎo .

That pulse forces the circuit breaker to shut down her mainframe for 30 seconds.

zhè dào kān 起来 qǐlai hěn 简单 jiǎndān , dàn dāng yāo Xiè shí jiù huì 发现 fāxiàn 确实 quèshí shì dào 难题 nán tí ...

The problem looks simple enough, but when you come to try and solve it you'll find it's a real teaser.

能够 néng gòu měi miǎo 执行 zhíxíng 数千运算 yùnsuàn .

It was capable of performing thousands of operations per second.

shè kuài 石头 shítou , rēng le 出去 chū qù .

He took a stone and threw it.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
it
它们 tā men they (for inanimate objects)它們
其它 qí tā other其它 qí tā
吉它 jí tā a guitar吉它 jí tā

Decomposition & Compounds

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Decomposition

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Compounds

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