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Kanji Detail for 者 - "person, one who, individual"

  • Meaning

    者 means "person, one who, individual."

    1. Person - One who does something; someone with specific characteristics.

    2. One who - Indicates a person in a particular role or category.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    someone; person

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    that which; he who; those who

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    that which; they who; those who

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A word for distinguishing matters. In all texts with 者, it serves to separate and distinguish. (Doctrine of the Mean) "Benevolence is humaneness. Righteousness is appropriateness." | A word for specifically pointing to something. (Analects) "Serve the worthy among his great officers. Befriend the benevolent among his scholars." | This. Such as 者箇 means this one. 者番 means this time. Now colloquially 這 is mostly used.
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Sentences including

  • I made my son a doctor.

  • He went so far as to say that i was coward.

  • The family love one another.

  • He is not a patient but a doctor in this hospital.

  • I met a famous scholar at the airport yesterday.

  • The trouble with him is that he is lazy.

  • Please call in a doctor.

  • He is not a teacher but a doctor.

  • We had better call the doctor.

  • I must pay a visit to the doctor.

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