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者

zhě

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character

者 (zhě) means "(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 者 means

1. (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
2. (after a noun) person involved in ...
3. -er
4. -ist
5. (used after a number or {后|hòu} or {前|qián} to refer to sth mentioned previously)
6. (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
7. old(used at the end of a command)
8. oldthis

Example sentences

• 他是作者。
  He writes books.
• 我是记者。
  I am a journalist.
• 当局者迷。
  You can't see the forest behind the trees.
• 能者多劳。
  It's only the most capable who do the work.
• 助人者自助。
  Zhù rén zhě zìzhù.
  To help others is to help yourself.
• 悲哉失败者!
  Bēi zāi shībàizhě!
  Woe to the vanquished.

Words starting with 者

• 者流zhě liú(after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute; people of that type

Words containing 者

• 记者jì zhěreporter; journalist
• 作者zuò zhěauthor; writer
• 或者huò zhěor; possibly; maybe; perhaps
• 读者dú zhěreader
• 患者huàn zhěpatient; sufferer
• 学者xué zhěscholar
• 消费者xiāo fèi zhěconsumer
• 笔者bǐ zhěthe author; the writer (usu. refers to oneself)
• 后者hòu zhěthe latter
• 投资者tóu zī zhěinvestor
• 死者sǐ zhěthe dead; the deceased
• 志愿者zhì yuàn zhěvolunteer
• 两者liǎng zhěboth of them; the two of them
• 爱好者ài hào zhělover (of art, sports etc); amateur; enthusiast; fan
• 前者qián zhěthe former (i.e. the one mentioned first)
• 工作者gōng zuò zhěworker
• 受害者shòu hài zhěcasualty; victim; those injured and wounded
• 老者lǎo zhěold man; elderly man
• 二者èr zhěboth; both of them; neither
• 使者shǐ zhěemissary; envoy
• 行者xíng zhěpedestrian; walker; itinerant monk
• 统治者tǒng zhì zhěruler
• 经营者jīng yíng zhěexecutive; manager; transactor
• 劳动者láo dòng zhěworker; laborer

Characters built on 日

These share the phonetic component 日 (rì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 曳yèto drag; to pull; Taiwan pr. yì
• 曷héwhy; how; when
• 晔yèbright light; to sparkle
• 昃zèafternoon; decline

Characters that look like 者

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 看kànto see; to look at; to read; to watch
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself
• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)
• 舍shěto give up; to abandon; to give alms
• 妻qī(bound form) wife
• 垂chuíto hang (down); droop; dangle

Sounds the same

Read zhě, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 褶pleat; crease; Taiwan pr. zhé
• 啫used in 啫哩
• 赭ocher
• 锗germanium (chemistry)

Where 者 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 6 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhě correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.