者 (zhě): meaning and stroke order
者 (zhě) means (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ..., (after a noun) person involved in ..., -er.
者
- Simplified
- 者
- Traditional
- 者 (same form)
- Pinyin
- zhě
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Stroke order of 者
者
- zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 者
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zhě
- (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
Radical and structure
- 者
- Radical 老 (Kangxi radical 125) · 9 strokes · 耂 on top, 日 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 者
- 死者 sǐ zhě the dead; the deceased
- 记者 jì zhě reporter; journalist; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 读者 dú zhě reader
- 或者 huò zhě or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- 志愿者 zhì yuàn zhě volunteer
- 作者 zuò zhě author; writer
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).