他動詞

たどうし · tadoushi · JLPT N1 · noun

transitive verb

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.

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