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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Cantonese

Hanzi

者 (Jyutping ze2, Yale je2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

者 (POJ chá (cha²), Hagfa Pinyim za3)

References

• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

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

Suffix

者 (hiragana しゃ, romaji -sha)

1. someone of that type, someone who does that

Derived terms

► Japanese words suffixed with 者

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

者 (Pinyin zhě (zhe3), Wade-Giles che³)

Suffix

者 (simplified Pinyin, zhě)

1. -er, -ist, one who ..., person involved in

   记者 journalist, 旅行者 traveler

Compounds

• 爱国者

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Vietnamese

Han character

者 (giả, trả, dã)