者 — how to write the kanji for “someone”
者 (“someone” and “person”) is a JLPT N4 kanji taught in third grade in Japan. In newspapers it is one of the hundred most used kanji (38th). KanjiVG finds it inside 29 other kanji, 偖 (“well”), 儲 (“be profitable”) and 堵 (“fence”) among them. KANJIDIC2 files it under the radical 老 (“old man”). On its own it is the word mono, “person”. Read sha, it forms 患者 (“patient”), 業者 (“trader”) and 記者 (“reporter”); the native reading mono gives 若者 (“young person”). Chinese reads it zhě, “one who ...”, at HSK 3.
- Strokes
- 8
- JLPT
- N4
- Radical
- 老 (“old man”)
- On
- シャ
- Kun
- もの
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
Its parts sit one inside another: 耂 (“old”), strokes 1–4; 日 (“day”), strokes 5–8, each finished before the next.
- Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
- Vertical ㇑topdownwards
- Horizontal ㇐leftrightwards
- Left-falling stroke ㇒top rightdown and left
- Vertical ㇑centerdownwards
- Horizontal-turn ㇕centerrightwards → downwards
- Horizontal ㇐bottomrightwards
- Horizontal ㇐bottomrightwards
Japanese and Chinese
The two models differ in shape, so our comparison does not claim an order; compare the numbered frames yourself (8 strokes in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese).
者 inside other kanji
KanjiVG count: 29 kanji.
Trace it
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Readings
- On (Chinese-derived)
- シャ sha
- Kun (native)
- もの mono
- Meanings
- someone; person
- Read sha
- 患者 業者 記者 容疑者 関係者 労働者
- Read mono
- 若者
- School year
- third grade
- Newspaper rank
- 38th of 2,500 (KANJIDIC2)
- Korean hanja
- 자 ja
- Common words
- 124 in JMdict
Words with 者
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 患者 | かんじゃ kanja | patient |
| 業者 | ぎょうしゃ gyousha | trader; dealer |
| 記者 | きしゃ kisha | reporter; journalist |
| 容疑者 | ようぎしゃ yougisha | suspect |
| 関係者 | かんけいしゃ kankeisha | person concerned; people involved |
| 若者 | わかもの wakamono | young person; youngster |
| 労働者 | ろうどうしゃ roudousha | worker; (manual) laborer |
| 消費者 | しょうひしゃ shouhisha | consumer; customer |
| 学者 | がくしゃ gakusha | scholar; academic |
| 死者 | ししゃ shisha | dead person; (the) deceased |
Most common first (JMdict).
Practice sheet
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JLPT N4, in list order: