he

Meanings

Pronoun

• A male (typically) person or animal already known or implied.
• they; a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
• it or they; an animal whose gender is unknown.
• A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.

Noun

• The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
• The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
• A male.
• The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.

Related

Similar words

• one, you ; he or she, he/she, they, s/he, or these other third-person pronouns (see "Combined forms", "Invented pronouns")
• it

Origin

• From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz ("this, this one").
• Transliteration of various Semitic letters, such as Transliteration of Phoenician 𐤄, Transliteration of Hebrew ה, Transliteration of Classical Syriac ܗ ("hē"), and Transliteration of Old South Arabian 𐩠.