HSK 2 · Pronouns

它 tā “it” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 它 means

  1. it

How to say 它

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale它tā1st tone, high and level

它 in a sentence

  1. 它的颜色是红的。

    Tā de yánsè shì hóng de.

    Its colour is red.

    Sentence #2161120 from Tatoeba

  2. 我希望你会喜欢它。

    Wǒ xīwàng nǐ huì xǐhuan tā.

    I hope you will like it.

    Sentence #3565111 from Tatoeba

  3. 它什么时候到？

    Tā shénme shíhou dào?

    When does it arrive?

    Sentence #5762988 from Tatoeba

How 它 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 它 (tā) with each of its parts in a different colour
它tāit
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 匕spoon · bǐ

Memory aidOnce drawn as a snake. That meaning moved to 蛇 (shé), and 它 came to mean “it”.

How to write 它

它 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

它 (tā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 它 (tā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 它

Words with 它

它们tāmen · they (for inanimate objects)

More words: Pronouns

我wǒ · I你nǐ · you我们wǒmen · we这zhè · this那nà · that您nín · you (polite)每měi · every大家dàjiā · everyone

FAQs

它 (tā) means “it”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it tā: tā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 它 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ta with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 它 from the suggestions. Typing ta into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
它 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.