# 他 — Other

Frequency rank 242 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 電 (Electricity), less common than 流 (Stream).

- On’yomi: た
- Kun’yomi: ほか
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The leader rides his alligator into Shibuya crossing and offers up his own shoulders, but the two bare legs step over him and the alligator both and climb onto some other man's neck.

In words:

- 他 た — other (esp. places and things)
- 他人 たにん — another person,unrelated person,outsider,stranger
- 他意 たい — ill will;malice;another intention;secret purpose;ulterior motive;fickleness;double-mindedness

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