the one who

Builds 192 distinct compound words — ranked #17 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: シャ
訓 kun: もの

Almost never alone. It attaches to an activity to name whoever does it: 医者 a doctor, 記者 a reporter, 若者 a young person.

The ten most common compounds built on 者. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

192compounds built

2,818times those words occur

#3by productivity alone

#40by how often it turns up

Where 者 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 者. Each one opens its own map.

学study; learning学者、科学者#15

Words built on 者

医者いしゃ527 uses

者もの320 uses

若者わかもの162 uses

患者かんじゃ123 uses

学者がくしゃ121 uses

科学者100 uses

労働者75 uses

歯医者はいしゃ54 uses

指導者53 uses

怠け者なまけもの44 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.