Example sentences

shì

She's my mom.

zàizuòfàn

She's cooking.

The story behind the character

This character is startlingly young. 她 was invented in 1918 by Liu Bannong. Before that, Chinese had one third-person pronoun, 他, for everyone. Liu coined 她 for women specifically, and it started an argument. Some people called it a pointless invention. So 她 is a character barely a hundred years old, younger than your great-grandparents.

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