者

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(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this

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HSK 3.0: Level 2
Old HSK: Level 3
Strokes: 8
Radical: 老 +4
Structure: Upper-left enclosure 左上包
Traditional: 者
Common rank: #133
Unicode: U+8005

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Formation & memory

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How 者 is formed

Components 耂日

How to remember it

someone · Heisig RSH #1037

Santa Claus + tongue wagging in the mouth — as a component also called: puppet

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 者

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
学者	xué zhě	scholar
开发者	kāi fā zhě	developer
行者	xíng zhě	pedestrian; walker; itinerant monk
性工作者	xìng gōng zuò zhě	sex worker
长者	zhǎng zhě	an elder; a senior
民主主义者	mín zhǔ zhǔ yì zhě	democrat
发明者	fā míng zhě	inventor
前无古人，后无来者	qián wú gǔ rén , hòu wú lái zhě	there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom); never done before…
语者	yǔ zhě	(linguistics) speaker
合作者	hé zuò zhě	co-worker; collaborator; also collaborator with the enemy
工作者	gōng zuò zhě	worker
老者	lǎo zhě	old man; elderly man
前不见古人，后不见来者	qián bù jiàn gǔ rén , hòu bù jiàn lái zhě	unique; unprecedented (idiom)
同道者	tóng dào zhě	like-minded person; person who shares the same ideals or goals; kindred spirit
重者	zhòng zhě	more serious case; in extreme cases
病者	bìng zhě	sick person; patient
者流	zhě liú	(after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute; people of that type
作者	zuò zhě	author; writer
后者	hòu zhě	the latter
传道者	chuán dào zhě	missionary; preacher

Sound family

These characters use 者 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
者 sound part	zhě	that which; they who; those who
都	dōu	all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital
猪	zhū	pig, hog, wild boar
诸	zhū	all, many, various; surname
著	zhù	to show, to prove, to make known
署	shǔ	bureau, public office; to sign
赌	dǔ	to bet, to gamble, to wager
绪	xù	mental state; thread, clue
屠	tú	to butcher, to slaughter; massacre
暑	shǔ	hot; heat; summer
煮	zhǔ	to boil, to cook
堵	dǔ	wall; to stop, to prevent, to block
奢	shē	exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful
睹	dǔ	to look at, to gaze at; to observe
渚	zhǔ	islet, sandbar
箸	zhù	chopsticks
褚	zhǔ	bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname
赭	zhě	hematite; ochre, reddish-brown
啫	zhě	onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning