Kanji1 / 8
者 kanji
someone, person
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シャ
Kun readings
もの
Variant forms
者Words with 者
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —治者ruler
- —牧者herder; herdsman; shepherd
- —知者sage; wise man; wise person; man of wisdom; buddha; bodhisattva; enlightened priest
- —聖者saint
- —撰者author; compiler; editor
- —愚者fool; nitwit; The Fool (Tarot card)
- —生者living person; the living
- —術者practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
- —兄者older brother
- —害者victim (of a crime, esp. murder)
- —唖者(a) mute; mute person
- —念者careful and thorough person; older male in an homosexual relationship
- —諜者spy
- —来者visitor; person born later than oneself; one's junior; future
- —往者person going (away); past
- —行者temple helper
- —聴者listener; person with normal hearing (i.e. not deaf); hearing person
- —病者sick person; patient; invalid
- —癩者leper
- —姉者elder sister