Another sinograph for Unicode — the third-person gender-neutral pronoun

Language Log 2026-01-17

Summary:

No sooner had I posted about a block of 11,328 proposed Small Seal characters dating back roughly two millennia being incorporated in UNICODE than a single spanking new sinograph surfaced and was urgently put forward for inclusion, and it is causing a bit of a ruckus.  That is the third-person gender-neutral pronoun X也, which is […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72620&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-sinograph-for-unicode-the-third-person-gender-neutral-pronoun

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

01/17/2026, 11:50

Date published:

01/17/2026, 10:12