It’s a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I’m curious if it’s hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.

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    8 days ago

    What? She in Chinese is 她. It might not be used often but it definitely is gendered…

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      Nope. 她 isn’t really used. 他 is the pronoun, even if its refering to women.

      Like if you wrote 他 to refer to a woman in an essay on a test, it’d get marked as correct.

      Edit: Although, on the internet, people commonly type “TA” instead of “他”.

      Edit 2: So clarification

      他 refers to both men and women

      她 can only be used to refer to women, and this is rarely used, except maybe in english class to teach about the english pronouns

      它 refers to non humans, like animals or objects

      all 3 are pronounce the same exact way (tā)