它
tā
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
It: the pronoun for an animal or a thing. Its sound, tā, is exactly that of 他 'he' and 她 'she', so in speech only the context tells them apart. It is used mostly for animals; for things Chinese often repeats the noun or leaves the pronoun out.
Nó: đại từ chỉ con vật hoặc đồ vật. Đọc là tā, y hệt 他 (anh ấy) và 她 (cô ấy), nên khi nói chỉ phân biệt nhờ ngữ cảnh. Thường dùng cho con vật; với đồ vật, tiếng Trung hay lặp lại danh từ hoặc bỏ hẳn đại từ.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (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 “它” mean?
It: the pronoun for an animal or a thing. Its sound, tā, is exactly that of 他 'he' and 她 'she', so in speech only the context tells them apart. It is used mostly for animals; for things Chinese often repeats the noun or leaves the pronoun out.
Is “它” formal or informal?
它 is generally neutral.