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This from a friend who speaks Mandarin.
The HE, SHE pronouns are written differently, but said the same. Verbally, no one can tell the difference.
The word is pronounced "ta". It means he, she and it. It is it's own possessive, objective and subjective variations. All of those tenses are other words added later in a sentence. It works.
As an aside, the way that the mandarin "we/us" is pronounced is "woman".
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Didn't James Thurber write a book "The Wonderful O" ? And halfway through the letter o disappears from the alphabet, so that "Ophelia Oliver couldn't go out of doors..." A quick google search reveals that it was even made into a musical! http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/music/salliterri/wondero.htm...never knew that, but somehow the cynic in me suspects that the book was better)
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