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HSK
or / possibly; maybe; perhaps
HSK 2
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  *者* | 者* | *者
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后 or 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
HSK 3
author; writer
HSK 3
reporter; journalist / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
reader
HSK 3
volunteer
HSK 3
scholar
HSK 5
consumer
HSK 5
patient; sufferer
HSK 6
emissary / envoy
HSK 7-9
the latter
HSK 7-9
the former
HSK 7-9
worker
lover (of art, sports etc); amateur; enthusiast; fan
dictator / autocrat
forerunner
editor; compiler
senior / older person
the deceased
both of them; the two of them
(Tw) user
listener / member of audience
intruder
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list
executive / manager / transactor
the dead / the deceased
pedestrian / walker / itinerant monk
casualty / victim / those injured and wounded
honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)
translator (of writing)
both / both of them / neither
old man; elderly man
observer / spectator
moreover / besides
the author; the writer (usu. refers to oneself)
MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
patriot
eyewitness
follower / adherent / following
editor's commentary
producer (of goods, commodities or farm produce etc) / manufacturer / (biology) autotroph
(literary) follower; attendant
well-known figure / excellent (person, company etc)
ruler
aggressors; invaders
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tw) / see 忍者神龜|忍者神龟
pioneer / groundbreaker
journalist
robber / plunderer / predator
offender / culprit
ninja
to refuse nobody (idiom) / all comers welcome
(idiom) an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved
sufferer / a victim of a calamity / a person in distress
an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
organizer
ruler / those in power / the authorities
proponent / advocate / pioneer
press conference
the person involved / the people holding power
busybody / CL: 個|个
victim / fatality
beginning student
survival of the fittest
foreign investor
worshipper
victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
performer / musician
Dear Sirs / To Whom It May Concern
worker; laborer
migrant / immigrant
asymptomatic carrier
Reader's Digest
trustee
(disease) carrier
(political) dissident
"land to the tiller", post-Liberation land reform movement instigated by the CCP
a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way
lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible
sage / wise man / clever and knowledgeable person
Mohist / follower of Mohist school
runaway
exploiter (of labor)
lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom) / fig. the originator of an evil practice
(idiom) only an outstanding talent can recognize current trends; a wise man submits to circumstances
conqueror
dealer / trader / person or company engaged in some industry or trade
attendant / waiter
Confucian
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
(literary) blind person
theist (believer in one or more Deities)
atheist
lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom) / fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets / a task is not done until it's done
(idiom) it's the most capable people who do the most work (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc)
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment
don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously
just now / a short while ago
proletariat / non-propertied person
blood donor

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