Definitions
(particle)
his; her; its; their
(particle)
that; such
Etymology
Pictograph of a basket, now written as 箕. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
About
The character "其" originated as a pictograph for a winnowing basket, a sense later designated by the compound character "箕" formed by adding the bamboo radical to "其". Early textual use saw "其" borrowed phonetically to function as a third-person possessive or demonstrative pronoun, a grammatical role that eventually supplanted its original nominal meaning. The contemporary form of "其" retains a structure that is a stylized reduction of its initial pictographic shape, and it is now employed solely as a pronoun or particle, with the tangible object it once depicted entirely expressed by the derivative character "箕".
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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。