Soon you may be able to type a new Chinese character: the gender-neutral pronoun | CNN
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Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

Non-binary people have been using the existing character"也"with a thing that looks like a Latin X on the side, so they’re going with that.

U+323BF 𲎿

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  • renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    interestingly, in Chinese there is only one third person pronoun: ta1 (or taa1 in Cantonese). The distinction between gender is made only in writing, and it’s a recent thing influenced by European languages. You can make other pronouns this way by attaching some component to the left of 也. For example, 牠 is for animals (with a ‘cow’ component), 祂 is for divine beings (with an ‘altar’ component)