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Etymology
Pictograph of a basket, now written as 箕. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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The character 其 began as a pictograph of a rectangular winnowing basket woven from bamboo, resting on a stand. This tool for separating grain from chaff was its original meaning. That literal sense was later taken over by 箕, a character that adds the bamboo radical. 其 was then borrowed purely for its sound, becoming a phonetic loan that now functions as a third-person possessive pronoun (his, her, its, their) and a demonstrative pronoun (that, those). It also appears frequently in compounds expressing probability, suggestion, or specific focus.
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我有其他事情。
其中一本书很有趣。
其实我不喜欢咖啡。
我们讨论其可能性。
他解释了其原因。
在众多选择中，其优点明显。
公司正在评估其市场策略。
科学家研究了其对于环境的影响。
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