者 (zhě)
suffix indicating a person who does something (e.g., author, reporter)
How 者 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 耂 — old
- Traditional
- 者
- Simplified
- 者 (unchanged)
Components
- 耂 old
- 日 sun/day
Common words using 者
- 作者 zuòzhě
- author; writer; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 告密者 gàomìzhě
- tell-tale; informer (esp. to police); whistle-blower
- 患者 huànzhě
- patient; sufferer
- 或者 huòzhě
- or; possibly; maybe
- 終結者 zhōngjiézhě
- The Terminator
- 記者 jìzhě
- reporter; journalist; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 使用者 shǐyòngzhě
- user
- 使者 shǐzhě
- emissary; envoy
- 侍者 shìzhě
- attendant; waiter
- 傷者 shāngzhě
- casualty; victim (of an accident); wounded person
- 初學者 chūxuézhě
- beginning student
- 前者 qiánzhě
- the former
者 in a sentence
這本書的作者很有名。
Zhè běn shū de zuòzhě hěn yǒumíng.
“The author of this book is very famous.”
How common is 者?
者 is the 103rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 42.3% of all running text.
Characters that appear with 者
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