https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238161.shtml

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      My understanding is that ta is gendered in written language (which was apparently introduced in the 20th century, before which it was gender neutral, thank you Europeans for exporting that one), but spoken there's no difference.

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, it's not an imposition of the west or anything. It seems to have been borrowed from western tradition, though, at least based on this article I found.

          https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/e-journal/articles/reading/zhao.pdf