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他

Other
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingタ
Kun readingほか
JLPT level: N3JōyōGrade 3Level 4

Meanings

  1. otherRtK
    彼は入院していたにもかかわらず、他の学生に遅れをとることはなかった。Though he had been in the hospital, he kept up with other students.tatoeba
    彼は他の男の子達の物笑いの種だった。He was the scorn of the other boys.tatoeba
  2. another
  3. the others
  1. another place
  2. some other place
  3. somewhere else
  4. outside
  5. another (person or thing)

Homonyms

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Same reading (た)
多 · multi-田 · rice field

Popular Usage

他人

Radicals and components

Radical人person亻variant
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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person (人) · scorpion

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1034

Compound words

他人たにん
another person; other people; others; unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood); outsider
他にほかに
else; in addition; besides
自他じた
oneself and others; subject and object; transitivity; transitive verbs and intransitive verbs; first person and third person
他国たこく
foreign country; another country; another province; strange land; alien land
他殺たさつ
murder
他社たしゃ
another company; other company
他者たしゃ
another person; others
他派たは
the other group
他方たほう
one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction
他面ためん
other side; another side; different angle; on the other hand
排他はいた
exclusion
他薦たせん
recommendation (by others)
その他そのほか
the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; other than that
他にもほかにも
furthermore; even more
排他主義はいたしゅぎ
exclusivism; exclusionism
競合他社きょうごうたしゃ
competing companies; rival companies
其他そのほか
the rest
他姓たせい
another surname
他處たしょ
another place
事の他ことのほか
exceedingly
殊の他ことのほか
exceedingly
其の他そのほか
the rest
他人事ひとごと
other people's affairs
排他的はいたてき
exclusive

On Reading Examples

彼女は彼を他の誰かとまちがえた。た
She mixed him up with someone else.tatoeba

Kun Reading Examples

彼は他の電話に出ています。ほか
He is on another line.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は頭はよいが、他方ではしばしば軽率な間違いをする。
He is clever, but on the other hand he often makes careless mistakes.tatoeba
彼は他人を批判できても、批判を受け入れることはできません。
He can dish it out, but he can't take it.tatoeba
彼は他人を欺くようなことはしない。
He is above deceiving others.tatoeba

Stroke Order

5 strokes

Other. 亻 (person) + 也 — another person, not me.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 他

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