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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The pronoun for a male person already mentioned: he or him. It is also the choice when a person's sex is unknown. 'His' is 他的, and the plural 他们 'they' also covers a mixed group. In speech it sounds exactly like 她 'she' and 它 'it'; only the written characters differ.
Đại từ ngôi thứ ba số ít chỉ nam giới: anh ấy, ông ấy, cậu ấy, nó. Cũng dùng khi không rõ người được nói đến là nam hay nữ. “Của anh ấy” là 他的; số nhiều là 他们 (họ), dùng cả cho nhóm có nam lẫn nữ. Khi nói, 他 đọc giống hệt 她 (cô ấy) và 它 (nó, chỉ vật); chỉ khác nhau ở chữ viết.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “他” mean?
The pronoun for a male person already mentioned: he or him. It is also the choice when a person's sex is unknown. 'His' is 他的, and the plural 他们 'they' also covers a mixed group. In speech it sounds exactly like 她 'she' and 它 'it'; only the written characters differ.
Is “他” formal or informal?
他 is generally neutral.