A Chinese character for non-binary gender is being added to Unicode, ≈ X也 - CNN
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Non-binary people have been using the existing character"也"with a thing that looks like a Latin X on the side, so they’re going with that.
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interestingly, in Chinese there is only one third person pronoun: ta1 (or taa1 in Cantonese). The distinction between gender is made only in writing, and it’s a recent thing influenced by European languages. You can make other pronouns this way by attaching some component to the left of 也. For example, 牠 is for animals (with a ‘cow’ component), 祂 is for divine beings (with an ‘altar’ component)