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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
- —情報弱者person with limited access to information (via the Internet, television, etc.)
- —保護者会legal guardians' association; parents' association (at a school); parent-teacher's meeting
- —被害者面playing the victim; playing the victim card
- —忍者屋敷ninja house; ninja residence
- —組織学者histologist
- —任命権者appointer; person with appointive power
- —性労働者sex worker
- —復古論者reactionary
- —猿面冠者young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
- —要援護者person requiring special help (usu. seniors, infants, etc. in disaster scenarios)
- —忍者烏鮫ninja lanternshark (Etmopterus benchleyi)
- —業者販売selling to traders; wholesaling; trade sales
- —心霊論者spiritualist
- —気象学者meteorologist; climatologist; aerologist
- —損者三友three kinds of harmful friends: hypocritical, sycophantic, and glib-talking ones
- —消費者庁Consumer Affairs Agency; CAA
- —論理学者logician
- —文法学者grammarian
- —受送達者addressee
- —依存症者addict; dependent (person)