者
zhě HSK2

one who...

者 zhě
-er affixnoun
(bound form) used after a verb, adjective, or noun to represent the person or thing performing an action or possessing a quality; translates as "-er", "-ist", or "one who"

他们是自由思想者。

tā​men shì zì​yóu sī​xiǎng zhě.

They are free thinkers.

今天，我是最后一个演讲者。

jīn​tiān, wǒ shì zuì​hòu yī​ge yǎn​jiǎng zhě.

I am the last speaker today.

[pause] conjunction
(literary) used after a subject or phrase to indicate a slight pause before a definition or explanation
[pronoun] pronoun
(bound form) used after a number or direction word to refer back to people or things previously mentioned; translates as "the ... one" (e.g. "the former", "the two")
[sentence-final]
(literary) used at the end of a sentence or command to mark a stop or conclusion
this
(archaic or dialect) this
surname
a Chinese surname
[similarity]
(literary) used after a phrase to indicate appearance or manner, similar to "as if" or "the appearance of"

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
103rd most common 1865.5 per million
Movie subtitles
193rd most common 901.9 per million appears in 94% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
339.4 per million appears in 56% of films
Written text
181.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+8005

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)