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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
- —第一走者first runner (in a relay); starting runner
- —六者会合six-party talks (regarding the North Korean nuclear weapons program)
- —六者協議six-party talks (regarding the North Korean nuclear weapons program)
- —太鼓医者doctor who curries favor with patients instead of practicing skilled medicine; quack doctor who flatters his patients; incompetent, flattering physician
- —不適格者unqualified person; ineligible person; unsuitable person; incompetent person
- —被支配者the ruled; the governed; subjects (of a ruler)
- —被保護者ward; protégé; protégée
- —厭世悲観者pessimist
- —下請け業者subcontractor
- —楽器演奏者(musical) instrumentalist
- —楽天主義者optimist
- —完全主義者perfectionist
- —急進主義者radical (person)
- —共産主義者communist
- —共同創設者co-founder
- —軍事当局者military authority
- —原理主義者fundamentalist
- —古生物学者paleontologist
- —公認候補者official candidate
- —港湾労働者longshoreman; stevedore