Chinese Character 者 Meanings and components.

Form

者

Meaning

者 meaning[3] in English

(After A Verb Or Adjective) One Who (Is) ....

(After A Noun) Person Involved In ....

-Er.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 者 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (耂) , and abbr. for 日本[Ri4 … (日)

Its radical[1] is: 老 (lao3) which means: Prefix Used Before The Surname Of A Person Or A Numeral Indicating The Order Of Birth Of The Children In A Family Or To Indicate Affection Or Familiarity, Old (Of People), Venerable (Person), Experienced, Of Long Standing, Always, All The Time, Of The Past, Very, Outdated, (Of Meat Etc) Tough, .老lao3prefix used …

In cangjie it is written with JKA

How to write 者

To write者zhe3(after a … you should write a combination of 耂lao3 , 日ri4abbr. for … arranged in a 吕 shape:

耂 + 日 = 者

者 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 者 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 者, looks as follow:

者
Pinyin:zhe3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: (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
耂
Pinyin:lao3
土
Pinyin:tu3
Meaning[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
日
Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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