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(Kangxi radical 102,田+5, 10 strokes,composition⿰男也)
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 男(“male”) + phonetic 也(OC*laːlʔ)
Most of the words in the table below are gender-neutral in spoken form, and, except for Mandarin and Standard Chinese, in written form as well.
The Chinese poet Liu Dabai (劉大白, 1880–1932) used this character in his writing.