sentences:  For example, the word for "doctor" is "yīshēng" (醫生 or 医生) and can only be made gender-specific by adding the root for "male" or "female" to the front of it; thus to specify a male doctor, one would need to prefix "nán" 男 (male), as in "nányīshēng" (男醫生 or 男医生).Under normal circumstances, both male and female doctors would simply be referred to as "yīshēng" (醫生 or 医生）.Spoken Mandarin Chinese also has only one third-person pronoun, "tā" for all referents (though "-men" 們 / 们 can be added as a plural suffix).