HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Connectives

者 zhě “(suffix) person who …” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 者 means

  1. (suffix) person who …
  2. -er
  3. -ist
  4. (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) …
  5. (after a noun) person involved in …
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously)
  • (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)

How to say 者

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale者zhě3rd tone, dipping

者 in a sentence

  1. 我想成为记者。

    Wǒ xiǎng chéngwéi jìzhě.

    I want to be a journalist.

    Sentence #2782527 from Tatoeba

  2. 这本小说的作者是谁？

    Zhè běn xiǎoshuō de zuòzhě shì shéi?

    Who’s the author of this novel?

    Sentence #811007 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她称自己为业余爱好者。

    Tā chēng zìjǐ wéi yèyú àihàozhě.

    She calls herself an amateur.

    Sentence #8750754 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 者 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 者 (zhě) with each of its parts in a different colour
者zhěone who …
  • 耂old form of 老 · lǎo
  • 日sun · rì

How to write 者

者 8 strokes

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者 (zhě) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 者 (zhě). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 者

Words with 者

或者huòzhě · or作者zuòzhě · author记者jìzhě · reporter志愿者zhìyuànzhě · volunteer患者huànzhě · patient

More words: Connectives & Grammar Words

可kě · but有关yǒuguān · to be related to的话dehuà · if (ends a conditional clause)将jiāng · will并bìng · and之间zhījiān · between自zì · from性xìng · (suffix) -ness

FAQs

者 (zhě) means “(suffix) person who …” or “-er”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it zhě: zhě with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 者 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhe with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 者 from the suggestions. Typing zhe into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
者 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.