blakeus12 [he/him]@hexbear.net to Learn the Chinese language@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · edit-211 个月前Apologies for the overly specific question, but what is the proper way to refer to enby people in mandarin?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up140arrow-down1message-squareApologies for the overly specific question, but what is the proper way to refer to enby people in mandarin?blakeus12 [he/him]@hexbear.net to Learn the Chinese language@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · edit-211 个月前message-square18fedilinkfile-text
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?
minus-squareGaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 个月前I don’t think there’s a male radical? That should just be the person radical
minus-squareblakeus12 [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 个月前the person radical is used to distinguish male ta (他) and female ta (她), but i cant think of any other time it’s used that way
minus-squarecommiespammer@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-211 个月前that’s a danliren, which is not a male radical. It refers to people. And it has no connotation, can refer to men, women, non-binary, even animals or objects.
A female version of 你, meaning “you”.
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I don’t think there’s a male radical? That should just be the person radical
the person radical is used to distinguish male ta (他) and female ta (她), but i cant think of any other time it’s used that way
that’s a danliren, which is not a male radical. It refers to people. And it has no connotation, can refer to men, women, non-binary, even animals or objects.
No it doesn’t.