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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
- —賃金労働者wage laborer; wage earner; paid worker
- —こっけい者idiot; dummy; joker; fool; trickster
- —消費者主義advocacy of consumer rights (product safety, accurate labelling, etc.); consumer activism; consumer advocacy; consumer spending; high levels of consumption
- —日本語学者Japanese language specialist; linguist specializing in Japanese
- —最終点火者Olympic Cauldron lighter; Olympic torch lighter; last runner in the Olympic torch relay
- —キリスト者Christian
- —デモ参加者demonstrator; marcher; picketer
- —満期釈放者released prisoner; ex-convict
- —区分所有者unit owner (in a condominium or other multi-unit building)
- —組合専従者full-time trade union official
- —死刑確定者criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
- —高齢者虐待abuse of elderly people
- —歩行者空間pedestrian zone; pedestrian space
- —医者泣かせ(being an) annoyance to one's doctor; troublesome patient
- —長期滞在者long-stay visitor; long-term resident
- —服装倒錯者transvestite; cross-dresser
- —幼児性愛者pedophile; paedophile
- —チェロ奏者cellist; violoncellist
- —同時通訳者simultaneous interpreter
- —芸者上がりex-geisha; former geisha