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者 kanji
someone, person
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
シャ
Kun readings
もの
Variant forms
者Words with 者
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —麻薬患者drug addict
- —無能力者incompetent person; incapable person; person without legal capacity
- —無資格者unqualified or unlicensed person; (legally) incompetent
- —武者人形samurai doll
- —武者修行traveling about to gain skill in combat (travelling)
- —禁治産者(legally) incompetent individual
- —古典学者classicist; classical scholar
- —古銭学者numismatist
- —行路病者person fallen sick by the wayside
- —動物学者zoologist
- —非戦論者pacifist
- —悲観論者pessimist
- —御用学者scholar beholden to the government; self-serving academic; scholar who toadies up to government authorities
- —首位打者the leading hitter
- —ヤブ医者inept doctor; bad doctor; poor doctor; quack
- —建築業者builder; constructor
- —宿命論者fatalist
- —適者生存survival of the fittest
- —有資格者qualified person; certified person; licensed person; eligible person
- —請負業者independent contractor