Hij/het as English “it”

According to Di3M, when I want to say it (pronoun) in Dutch I should think of a gender.

I should use het with the neuter het-nouns.
I should use hij with the common-gender de-nouns.

For example:
Het huis: het is groot.
De boot: hij is groot.

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