吉他
jí tā · HSK 7
guitar
🎸 Loanword: jí tā mimics the English sound gui-tar
他 — person radical 亻 + 也
Originally written 它, depicting a snake, and used as a general third-person pronoun. The person radical 亻 was later added to specify a human referent, while 也 serves as the phonetic component giving the sound tā.