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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
- —不合格者unsuccessful candidate; rejected person
- —輸入業者importer; import merchant (trader); importing firm
- —立候補者candidate (for an election)
- —旅行業者travel agent
- —社債権者bondholder
- —性犯罪者sex offender
- —交通弱者vulnerable road users (such as the elderly, mobility-impaired people and young children); people without public transport access; transport poor
- —救急患者emergency patient; emergency case
- —会者定離those who meet must part (suggesting the transient nature of this life); we meet only to part
- —知者不惑a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers
- —経済学者economist
- —医者通いcourse of medical treatment; under-the-doctor
- —識者評論a word from the wise
- —益者三友three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones
- —学者バカlearned fool; person who is book smart but lacking in common sense
- —愚者一得even a fool may sometimes give good counsel
- —三者鼎立three parties (forces) opposing one another; three-cornered contest
- —三文役者third-rate actor
- —政権亡者one who is obsessed with (getting into, holding on to) political power; one who is obsessed with the idea of taking over government
- —聖人賢者person of lofty virtue and great wisdom