他動詞
たどうし · tadoushi · JLPT N1 · noun
transitive verb
🔨📦 他 = other, 動 = act, 詞 = word: a verb whose action passes to another thing
他 means other, 動 means act, and 詞 means word. The action moves from the subject to a separate object, as in kick the ball, where the ball receives the action.
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.