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

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) もの​ [mònó] (Odaka)
• 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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
者

Pronunciation

Mandarin (Standard Chinese, Beijing) Pinyin zhě Zhuyin ㄓㄜˇ IPA (key) /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Hanzi

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

Suffix

者 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhě)

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 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zhě)

1. (dated, regional) this

Compounds

• 爱国者

References

• "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.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

者 (*jiǎ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

者 (giả, trả, dã)