者

§Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

§Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a bush with intertwined branches in a ritual vessel; precise sense unclear. 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

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

• 都 煮 暑 署 緒 (緖 绪) 著 諸 (诸) 賭 (赌)

§References

• 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

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§Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		者

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhě (zhe³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chá
• Min Nan (POJ): chiá

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhě
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chê³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jee
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ze²
    • Yale: jé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chá
    • Hagfa Pinyim: za3
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiá
    • Tâi-lô: tsiá
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕia⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕia⁵³/

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

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

者

1. (dated, regional) this

§Compounds

• 爱国者

§References

• (Mandarin) "者" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-14.
• "Jukuu" (in Mandarin/English), Jukuu. URL accessed on 2014-03-14.
• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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§Japanese

§Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) もの​ [mònó] (Odaka - [o])
• IPA^(key): [mo̞no̞]

§Kanji

者

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

§Readings

• On: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: もの (mono)

§Compounds

• 新聞記者
• 人気者
• 愛国者
• 愛読者
• 悪者
• 芸者
• 配偶者 (はいぐうしゃ) (haigūsha, “spouse”)
• 被害者
• 利用者
• 担当者
• 忍者 (にんじゃ) (ninja, “ninja”)
• 医者 (いしゃ) (isha, “doctor”)
• 著者 (ちょしゃ) (chosha, “author”)
• 若者 (わかもの) (wakamono, “youth”)

§Noun

者 (hiragana もの, romaji mono)

1. person

§See also

• 人 (ひと, hito)
• 人 (じん, jin)

§Suffix

者 (hiragana しゃ, romaji -sha)

1. someone of that type, someone who does that

§Derived terms

► Japanese words suffixed with 者

§See also

• 家 (や, -ya)
• 手 (しゅ, -shu)

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§Korean

§Hanja

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

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

者 (giả, trả, dã)

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