者

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Etymology[edit]

Pictogram (象形) – a bush with intertwined branches in a ritual vessel; precise sense unclear.[1] Phonetic loan (假借) for abstract meanings.

Top 耂 is unrelated to 老 and 考, thus in some forms (notably the form used in the Kangxi Dictionary) there is an added dot to distinguish 者 from these others, but this is not present traditionally.

Han character[edit]

者 (radical 125 老+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十大日 (JKA), four-corner 44600, composition ⿱耂日)

  1. that which
  2. he/she who
  3. those who
  4. someone whose

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 者, Richard Sears, Chinese Etymology
  • KangXi: page 961, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2780, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8005

Chinese[edit]

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simp. and trad.
 者

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (者, reconstructed)
Character (者), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 章 (23)
Final: 麻
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Rising (X)

 Fanqie: 章也切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiaX/ /t͡ɕi̯aX/ /t͡ɕiaX/ /t͡ɕiaX/ /ciaX/ /t͡ɕĭaX/ /t͡ɕiaX/
Old Chinese pronunciation (者, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
者 zhě ‹ tsyæX › /*tAʔ/ (nominalizing particle)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
者 16960 者 魚 0 者 /*tjaːʔ/ 說文古旅聲。甲金文象足印小坎積水，爲瀦初文，用詹鄞鑫說

Suffix[edit]

者

  1. (nominalizer) -er, -ist, one who ..., person involved in, the things which ...
    记者 journalist, 工作者 worker
    我父親總是說天助自助者。 wǒ fùqīn zǒngshì shuō tiān zhù zì zhù zhě.
    My father always said that heaven helps those who help themselves.
  2. (used after a number or 后 (後) or 前 to refer to something mentioned previously)
    前者 the former, 后者 the latter
    如下三者任择其一。rúxià sān zhě rèn zé qí yī
    There are three alternatives.
  3. (used after a term, to mark a pause)
  4. (used at the end of a command)

Pronoun[edit]

者

  1. (dated, regional) this

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
者

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Noun[edit]

者 (hiragana もの, romaji mono)

  1. person

See also[edit]

Suffix[edit]

者 (hiragana しゃ, romaji -sha)

  1. someone of that type, someone who does that

Derived terms[edit]

Japanese words suffixed with 者

See also[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

者 (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

者 (giả, trả, dã)

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