How to say

  • Traditional characters:
  • Pinyin (Taiwan standard):
  • Zhuyin (bopomofo): ㄊㄚ
  • Meaning: she / her

Hear it in a Taiwan accent:

in example sentences

Real lines from CiaoSpeak’s graded stories, each with pinyin, an English translation and Taiwan-accent audio.

她是老師!

tā shì lǎo shī

SHE is!

From the story 你是老師嗎? (Are You a Teacher?)

老闆娘說她找不到你的名字。你用什麼名字訂的?

lǎo bǎn niáng shuō tā zhǎo bú dào nǐ de míng zi nǐ yòng shén me míng zi dìng de

She says she can't find your name. What name did you book under?

From the story 訂錯了 (Booked Wrong)

阿嬤是台南人,她說粽子一定要用水煮,米才會軟。

ā mà shì Tái nán rén tā shuō zòng zi yí dìng yào yòng shuǐ zhǔ mǐ cái huì ruǎn

Grandma is from Tainan. She says zongzi must be boiled — that's the only way the rice gets soft.

From the story 粽子大戰 (The Zongzi War)

不知道!我問了一位阿姨:「請問,郵局在哪裡?」她說「直走」,我就一直走。

bù zhī dào wǒ wèn le yí wèi ā yí qǐng wèn yóu jú zài nǎ lǐ tā shuō zhí zǒu wǒ jiù yì zhí zǒu

No idea! I asked a lady, 'Excuse me, where's the post office?' She said 'go straight,' so I just... kept going.

From the story 找郵局 (Finding the Post Office)

坐在櫃檯後面的小雨只是搖搖頭,她從來不相信什麼詛咒,只相信有人一定有理由。

zuò zài guì tái hòu miàn de Xiǎoyǔ zhǐ shì yáo yáo tóu tā cóng lái bù xiāng xìn shén me zǔ zhòu zhǐ xiāng xìn yǒu rén yí dìng yǒu lǐ yóu

Xiaoyu, sitting behind the counter, just shook her head — she never believed in curses, only that someone always had a reason.

From the story 鐘不響了 (The Bell Doesn't Ring)

Where is taught

  • Unit level: TOCFL Novice 2 (CiaoSpeak’s placement, not the official TOCFL word list)
  • Unit: People, Actions & Questions
  • Lesson: Talking About People
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