者
Meanings
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- 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.(old) this
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Wiktionary
- 1.Used at the end of a command.
- 2.Topicalizer used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term.
- 3.this
- 4.-er; -ist; one who ...; person involved in; the things which ...
- 5.Used after a number, "before" 前 (qián), or "after" 後／后 (hòu) to refer to something mentioned previously.
- 6.a surname, Zhe
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a sugarcane with full stems, with some points around (either leaves or drops of sweet liquid) and an open and smiling mouth at the bottom. This is the original character for either 蔗 (OC *tjaːɡs, “sugarcane”) or 煮 (OC *tjaʔ, “to boil”). Phonetically loaned for abstract meanings. Top component 耂 is unrelated to 老, 考, and 孝. The variant form with an additional 丶 stroke below 耂 is influenced by Shuowen, which considered 白 as the bottom component of 者. ; one who, -er, nominalizing suffix Etymologically related to 之 (OC *tjɯ, “nominalizing, possessive particle”) and perhaps colloquial 的 (Pulleyblank, 1995).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
自助者天助。
God helps those who help themselves.
飲酒者不准禁入。
People who drink alcoholic beverages are not allowed to enter.
幕后操纵者是谁？
Who's behind it?
我是最快的跑者。
I am the fastest runner.
我不是个母语者。
I'm not a native speaker.
優勝者不使用藥物。
Winners don't use drugs.
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Derived terms
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