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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
- —精神病者mentally ill person
- —軍事学者military scholar; military writer
- —被収容者(prison) inmate; detainee; prisoner
- —仮釈放者parolee; person on parole
- —仮出所者parolee; person on parole (from prison)
- —仏教学者Buddhist scholar; Buddhologist
- —温泉芸者hot spring geisha; onsen geisha; geisha working in a hot spring resort
- —伯父者人uncle
- —著作権者copyright holder; copyright owner
- —被後見者ward (of a guardian); pupil
- —転び芸者fallen geisha; geisha who prostitutes herself
- —江戸芸者Edo geisha; geisha living and working inside Edo (not one of the red-light districts on its outskirts)
- —芸者買いhiring a geisha
- —芸者遊びbeing entertained by a geisha
- —芸能記者entertainment journalist; entertainment reporter; gossip columnist
- —性被害者sexual abuse victim
- —労働者党Workers' Party
- —労働者区workers' district (in North Korea)
- —口の達者glib; smooth-talking; silver-tongued
- —無症状者person who shows no symptoms (of an infectious disease); asymptomatic person