漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
他: other, another
Also: the others
JLPT N35 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 也 gives the sound
5 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
タta · on'yomi · in compounds
- 他人たにんstranger [n.]
- 排他的なはいたてきなexclusive
- その他そのたetc.
- 他国たこくforeign country; another country
- 他社たしゃanother company; other company
- 他方たほうone (esp. of two); the other; one way
- 他派たはthe other group
ほかhoka · kun'yomi · on its own
- 他ほかanother place; some other place
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 man, as 亻 (meaning) + 也 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 他 (rev. 93766695), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read タ
5 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side他 other · 亻
vs地 ground · 土In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tā
Same form: 他 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 他 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 他 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tā most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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