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    4 days ago

    If you write 他 to refer to a woman on a test essay, you’d still get marked correct.

    Writing 她 to refer to a man would be incorrect.

    Basically

    他 = He OR She

    她 = She

    它 = It (refer to objects and non-human animals)

    他 is what gets used all the time to refer to both genders. 她 is rarely used, unless maybe in an English class to teach the difference between the English pronouns He and She.

    Also, they are all pronounced the same: (tā)