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Kanji Detail for 者 - "person, thing"

者

  • Meaning

    者 means "person, thing."

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

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

  • Words using 者

    • 患者 かんじゃ Listen patient
    • 業者 ぎょうしゃ Listen trader; dealer; businessperson
    • 記者 きしゃ Listen reporter; journalist
    • 容疑者 ようぎしゃ Listen suspect
    • 関係者 かんけいしゃ Listen person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned
    • 若者 わかもの Listen young person; youngster; young people
    • 労働者 ろうどうしゃ Listen worker; (manual) laborer; labourer
    • 消費者 しょうひしゃ Listen consumer (of a product, service, etc.); customer; (end) user

  • Four-character idioms with 者

    • 二者択一 にしゃたくいつ Listen choosing between two things; two choices
    • 武者修行 むしゃしゅぎょう Listen traveling about to gain skill in combat (travelling)
    • 三者三様 さんしゃさんよう Listen everybody is different; to each their own; three different people, three different styles
    • 三者鼎立 さんしゃていりつ Listen three parties (forces) opposing one another; three-cornered contest
    • 二者選一 にしゃせんいつ Listen choosing between two things; two choices
    • 会者定離 えしゃじょうり Listen those who meet must part (suggesting the transient nature of this life); we meet only to part

  • Tattoo check: 者

    • Verified meaning: person, thing
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sha(シャ) シャ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    mono(もの) もの

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    老 耂 (oikammuri・oigashira・oi)

  • Related Keywords

    person thing one who someone individual entity somebody anyone subject doer

Sentences including 者

  • 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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