@ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml
Post #2145215
2025-12-29 22:16 UTC
Disclaimer: I'm learning Japanese & I don't know Chinese.
It looks like the original character for the 3rf person pronoun is now the masculine pronoun & the female pronoun is made by substituting the person component (人, I don't know how to type the left-component form) with the woman component (女).
Replies (2)
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@NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 2025-12-29 22:40
That's exactly how to understand them
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@racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2025-12-30 00:10
他 isn't the pronoun for masculine third person. It's third person, period. Neutral gender if one has to ask. Traditionally the character used to mean "that" is 彼. Apparently it's also gender-neutral.