I am aware that 他 and 她 are pronounced the same, but written it is an issue. Is 他们 or 她们 appropriate at all?

  • GaveUp [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Disclaimer: I don’t know jack shit about Taiwanese

    Looks like a feminine version of “you”, since “you” is the left character of this 他 + the right character of this 妳 and the left character of this 妳 is the character for “female” (which is why 她 is “her” while “他” is “them”)

    Sorry for all this I don’t have a Chinese keyboard on my laptop

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      Taiwanese doesn’t exist as a language, it is just traditional Mandarin Chinese, as the CPC modernized, refined, and greatly simplified Mandarin. The things you are pointing out essentially arise from attempting to add even more complexity into a very antiquated and complex writing system.