U+8005 "者" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
者
U+8005 "者" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental and highly versatile Chinese character used in classical and modern Mandarin, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja. It predominantly functions as a nominalizing suffix or pronoun, often meaning "person," "one who does something," or "that which," as seen in words like "工作者" (worker) or "读者" (reader). Its structure consists of the radical for "old" or "venerable" at the top, beneath which the radical for "sun" or "day" appears, though its phonetic role is more prominent in forming compound characters. In historical contexts, "者" also appears in classical Chinese as a topic marker, helping to define or emphasize the subject of a sentence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8005 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 者 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 者 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x80 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8005 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008005 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8005 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AACC |
| kCCCII | 21525F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4F2F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4F2F |
| kCangjie | JKA |
| kCantonese | ze2 |
| kCihaiT | 1080.101 |
| kCowles | 169 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1409.020 |
| kDefinition | that which; he who; those who |
| kEACC | 21525F |
| kFanqie | 章也 |
| kFenn | 192B |
| kFennIndex | 22.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.0 |
| kGB0 | 5363 |
| kGB1 | 5363 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0045a |
| kHangul | 자:0E |
| kHanYu | 42780.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhě(1454) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42780.050:zhě |
| kHKGlyph | 3230 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1409.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42780.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0961.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-555F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AACC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C54 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6BB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D3A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4F2F |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8E7C |
| kJapanese | シャ もの |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:969 |
| kJapaneseKun | MONO |
| kJapaneseOn | SHA |
| kJis0 | 2852 |
| kKangXi | 0961.010 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kLau | 1367 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5074 |
| kMandarin | zhě |
| kMatthews | 263 |
| kMeyerWempe | 188 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020756 MJ030290:FE00 MJ020756:E0102 MJ030290:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 28852 28853:FE00 28852:E0102 28853:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3685 3688 |
| kPhonetic | 94 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2304+72.4.4 C+2304+125.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 125.4 |
| kSBGY | 307.35 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 542.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhě粵ze2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5074 |
| kTang | *jiǎ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 470.050:zhě |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 245:127 |
| kXHC1983 | 1464.090,1464.091*:zhě |