か
Meanings
Suffix
1. -ist; -er
used after a noun indicating someone's occupation, pursuits, disposition, etc.
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
⚠
か
Used in vocabulary (365 in total)
employer's house; master's house
(my) wife; inside the home; one's family
one's own house; own; personal; autologous
family
painter; artist
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
(domestic) fowl; poultry
furniture
poor home
deserted house; ruined house; abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family
Confucianist
domicile; premises
house where one was born; one's parents' house
fortunes of a family
master; expert; mansion; large house; rich family; distinguished family
distinguished family; good family; great master; expert; Meika; kuge family class ranking above Hanke and below Urinke
within the family; in the home; domestic
politician; statesman
farmer; farming family; farmhouse; School of Agrarianism (China); School of Agronomists
glutton; gormandizer; gormandiser
staying at home
Buddhist temple; Buddhist priest
debauchee; profligate; fast liver; philanderer
person who is knowledgeable about Japan; Japanologist
head of the house
vassal; retainer
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
family lineage
private house
house; building
novelist; fiction writer
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
head of a family; patriarch; matriarch
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
chief retainer; daimyo's minister
family crest
merchant; store; shop; merchant house; merchant family
Imperial Court
steward; butler
head of family; head house; sōke; founder (of a style, etc.); originator
house where one was born; one's parents' house
hard worker; hardworking person
house; dwelling; human habitation
wealthy person
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
household economy; family finances
family precepts; family motto; rule of the home
good family; respectable family; decent family
investor
family status
architect
martial artist; fighter
critic; reviewer; commentator
historian
revolutionary
adventurer
enthusiast; fan; lover; devotee; aficionado
machiya; traditional wooden townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
capitalist; financier
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer
person who has great confidence (faith) in himself
ambitious person
thinker
businessperson; businessman; businesswoman; entrepreneur; captain of industry
photographer
avid reader; bookworm
religious leader; person of religion; religious figure; religionist
researcher; student (of)
performing musician
director (of a film, play, etc.)
epicure; gourmet
household belongings; household goods; family fortune; family assets
household economy; housekeeping; homemaking
dilettante; person of unusual tastes; person with strange hobbies; person of refined taste; connoisseur
martial artist
engraver; carver; sculptor
martial artist
family tree
family tradition
devoted husband
one's family; one's clan
family which supports a temple; parishioner
mountain villa; chalet; mountain cottage; mountain retreat; house in the mountains
rakugo story teller; comic story teller
playwright; dramatist
lawyer; jurist
various families; various schools of thought
diligent student; studious person
optimist; easy-going person
country home; farmhouse; cottage
family trade; family business; steward (of an estate)
theorist
historian
tactician; strategist; schemer; maneuverer
dreamer
mountain climber; mountaineer
karate practitioner; karateka
banker; bank proprietor; bank manager
tactician; strategist
one's in-laws (esp. a woman's in-laws)
hereditary stipend
translator
wasteful person; spendthrift
private house; one's own house
entrepreneur; person who starts a new business
professional comic (rakugo) storyteller
educator; teacher
dancer; dancing master; dancing mistress
thrifty person; frugal person; economizer
writer; author; literary person; one who lives from writing
industrialist; entrepreneur
conspirator; plotter
enterprising man; businessman; industrialist
key animator; lead animator
occupant of a house; family member; household member (incl. servants)
family tradition
wealthy individual; person of wealth
activist; campaigner; crusader (e.g. for women's rights); athlete; sporty person
steward; butler; attendant
idealist
artist who produces Western-style paintings
family court
Taoist
charitable person; philanthropist
dairy farmer
charitable person; philanthropist; volunteer; supporter
soldier; tactician; strategist
small and simple home
hen-pecked husband
traveller; traveler
calligrapher; individual with good penmanship
orator; eloquent speaker; accomplished orator
lyric writer; lyricist; songwriter
wealthy and powerful family
practical individual
one's homeland; one's old home
liquor store; sake shop; pub; heavy drinker; drunkard
house for rent; house to let; building a house; built house
houseboy; manservant
your home
judo practitioner; judoka
tactician; strategist
dreamer; daydreamer; visionary
my older brother
virtuous person
the imperial family or household
clinician; clinical practitioner
person with a sharp tongue
judge; appraiser
kind person; warmhearted person; sympathetic person
very wealthy person; millionaire
family of doctors; doctor
Shintoist
collected waka poems (of a single poet)
businessman; businesswoman; person with a head for business; skilled businessperson; experienced businessperson
domestic uses
patient's house
passionate person
family property
portrait painter
loyalist to the emperor; imperial loyalist
superstitious person
calligrapher
dog lover; person who loves dogs
demagogue; agitator
man of letters; writer
speaker; orator
aspect, position, layout, etc. of a house (determining the residents' fortune); physiognomy of a house
pedigree; genealogy
individual investor
Japanophile
lustful person
aviator; pilot
thinker
pessimist
horticulturist
writer; author
family code
beekeeper; apiarist
talkative person; chatterbox
landscape artist; landscape painter; landscapist
neijia (Chinese martial arts style); internal martial arts
man of affairs
scholar of Japanese mathematics; expert in Japanese mathematics
sensible person
economical person; thrifty person; saver
pious man; religionist
diligent worker; hard worker
the whole family
creative writer
book collector
sociable person
heavy drinker; toper; sot
philatelist; stamp collector
politician
bibliophile
practical person; man of action; doer
family custom
emotional person
lecher; philanderer
(skilled) writer; essayist
lawyer; legalism (school of Chinese philosophy)
diplomat; diplomatic person
(male) cross-dresser; transvestite
sophist
film critic; movie critic
big eater; trencherman; glutton
brewer; distiller; vintner
ladies' man
art historian
craftsman; artisan
related family
veteran; expert
Buddhist; researcher of Buddhism
sentimentalist
heirloom; trump card; last resort; family tradition
man of influence
watercolorist; watercolourist; watercolor painter; watercolour painter
letter from home
reactionary
speculator; venturer
reformer; reformist
grammarian
court artist; courtroom sketch artist
consumer (of a product, service, etc.); customer; end user; consumer (in a food chain)
hereditary learning
person of great renown
able individual; man of ability
household possessions
astronomer
able individual; man of ability
political tactician
financier
person who dislikes smoking; anti-smoker; militant nonsmoker
playboy; playgirl; fast liver; person with an active sex life
sericulturist; silk grower; silkworm raiser
government-backed school operated by a scholar out of his home
diviner (esp. of the Yin and Yang system); sorcerer; exorcist; School of Yin-yang (China); School of Naturalists
farmer; agriculturalist
financier; investor
loan capitalist; financial capitalist
designer
fine writer
capable person; shrewd person
poet
gunner; artillerist
School of Diplomacy (school of thought during the Warring States period in China)
the teacher's home
exemplary farmer; outstanding farmer
drinker; drunkard
connoisseur; judge
choreographer
conservator; restorer
contributor (e.g. to a newspaper); correspondent
statesman
frugal person
political activist
Mohism; Moism
doer; person of action
meditator; meditation practitioner
contributor (of articles); contributing writer
sociable person
popular character
physical culturist; athlete
philanthropist
(music) arranger; orchestrator
poultry farmer
printmaker; woodblock artist; copperplate engraver
posthouse; station; post station
breeder; grower
textile industrialist
cartographer; draftsman; drafter
Royalists
governing one's family
overseas investor
(highly-experienced) beautician; cosmetologist
word from home
homeless; family in mourning
a doctrinaire
comic storyteller
social critic
miscellanist; miscellaneous writer
environmental activist; environmentalist
habitual drinker
connoisseur; devotee
moneymaker; money-grubber
grower; farmer
seal engraver
abstainer; teetotaler; nondrinker
furniture; fixtures
your house
financier
women's movement activist; feminist activist
decorator; ornamentalist
physiognomist
fish farmer; pisciculturist
shipbuilder
ready writer; prolific writer; productive writer
skilled writer
domestic poultry
koto player
(residential) house
floriculturist
The Japan Writers' Association; JWA
foreign investor
Onmyōdō astrologist
good walker
expert in old writing
aikido practitioner
influential family; the man in power
animator
stamp collector; philatelist
metal carver; chaser; engraver
historian of science; science historian
cross-fertilization; allogamy
cross-pollination
radio operator
lecturer; public speaker
woodblock artist; woodblock printmaker
martial artist
ravenous eater; glutton
schemer; scheming man
picky eater; fussy eater
kenpō practitioner; expert in kenpō
Japan Democratic Lawyer's Association
Examples (1 in total)
Tom is a very fussy eater.