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Chinese has gendered pronouns in written form. The characters for he and she are written differently, but they are both pronounced the same way - tā. I assume
by dron57 5y ago
Chinese has gendered pronouns in written form. The characters for he and she are written differently, but they are both pronounced the same way - tā.
I assume that in some older form of Chinese the sounds must have been different, but they converged and people get by fine in spoken language.
- rhernandez35 5y agoIt's actually the other way around. The 她 form was introduced in the relatively recent 1920s, partially to make it easier to translate Western texts.