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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
- —小売り業者retailer
- —資金提供者investor; funder; financial contributor
- —差別主義者proponent of discrimination (such as a racist or sexist); bigot
- —政策決定者policymaker
- —使用者責任employer's liability; vicarious reliability; respondeat superior
- —当事者主義adversarial system
- —納税者番号taxpayer identification number (in the US, Germany, etc.)
- —定年退職者retired person (who has reached retirement age); retiree
- —ネット弱者person with limited Internet skills; Internet illiterate
- —特定排出者designated emitter; specified emitter; organization required to report levels of greenhouse gas emissions
- —共同創業者co-founder
- —共同創立者co-founder
- —密接交際者person who socializes with gangsters; close associate of an organized criminal group
- —不法占拠者unlawful occupant (e.g. of a house, of land, etc.); squatter
- —優良運転者excellent driver; model driver; driver license holder who has not been involved in an accident for the past 5 years; receives preferential treatment when renewing their license
- —特定障害者specified persons with disabilities; people with severe disabilities that significantly impact their daily life
- —当事者意識sense of involvement (e.g. in a movement); consciousness of being a participant
- —横断歩行者road crosser; pedestrian crossing the road
- —自殺志願者person contemplating suicide; prospective suicide; suicidal person
- —犯罪容疑者suspected criminal; suspect