她 tā HSK1 she Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound. Similar to 他 (he). Components 女 女 Meaning component nǚ, nü woman 也 也 Sound component yě also Change in sound 她 and 也 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese. 她 *l̥ˤaj (E dialect: *l̥ˤ- > MC th-) 也 *lAjʔ Historical Pronunciations Sources Readings & variants Unicode
