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者

者

者 U+8005, 者
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8005
← 耄
[U+8004] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 耆 →
[U+8006]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

者 (radical 125 老+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十大日 (JKA), four-corner 44600, composition ⿱耂日)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 961, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2780, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8005

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 者

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (者) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觰 *rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸 *tjaː, *tja
者 *tjaːʔ
堵 *tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭 *tjaːʔ
撦 *l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯 *tʰjaːʔ
闍 *djaː, *taː
奢 *hljaː
鍺 *toːlʔ
都 *taː
醏 *taː
覩 *taːʔ
睹 *taːʔ
暏 *taːʔ
賭 *taːʔ
帾 *taːʔ
楮 *taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠 *daː, *da
瘏 *daː
廜 *daː
鷵 *daː
緒 *ljaʔ
豬 *ta
猪 *ta
瀦 *ta
藸 *ta, *da
櫫 *ta
褚 *taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著 *taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸 *tas, *das
儲 *da
躇 *da
櫧 *tja
藷 *tja, *djas
蠩 *tja
煮 *tjaʔ
渚 *tjaʔ
煑 *tjaʔ
陼 *tjaʔ
翥 *tjas
署 *djas
薯 *djas
曙 *djas
書 *hlja
暑 *hjaʔ
鐯 *taɡ
擆 *taɡ
櫡 *taɡ

Pictogram (象形) – the original character for either 煮 (OC *tjaʔ, “to boil”) or 蔗 (OC *tjaːɡs, “sugarcane”). Phonetically loaned for abstract meanings.

Top 耂 is unrelated to 老 and 考, thus in some forms (notably the form used in the Kangxi Dictionary) there is an added dot to distinguish 者 from these others, but this is not present traditionally.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 者
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 麻 (100)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章也切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiaX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiaX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciaX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiaX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭaX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯aX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhě
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 者
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhě
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyæX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tAʔ/
English (nominalizing particle)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 者
Reading # 1/1
No. 16960
Phonetic
component		 者
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 者
Old
Chinese		 /*tjaːʔ/
Notes 說文古旅聲。甲金文象足印小坎積水，爲瀦初文，用詹鄞鑫說

Definitions

者

  1. used at the end of a command
  2. used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term
  3. (literary or regional) this
  4. (agent suffix) -er; -ist; one who ...; person involved in; the things which ...
    記者 / 记者  ―  jìzhě  ―  journalist
    工作者  ―  gōngzuòzhě  ―  worker
  5. used after a number, 後／后 (hòu), or 前 (qián) to refer to something mentioned previously
    前者  ―  qiánzhě  ―  the former
    後者 / 后者  ―  hòuzhě  ―  the latter

Compounds

Japanese

Pronunciation

Kanji

者

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

者 ‎(hiragana もの, romaji mono)

  1. person

See also

Suffix

者 ‎(hiragana しゃ, romaji -sha)

  1. someone of that type, someone who does that

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Japanese_words_suffixed_with_%E8%80%85'>Japanese words suffixed with 者</a>

See also

Korean

Hanja

者 • ‎(ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

者 (giả, trả, dã)

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