Meanings
Suffix
1. -ist; -er
used after a noun indicating someone's occupation, pursuits, disposition, etc.
Kanji used
house
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (345 in total)
family; members of a family
vassal; retainer
furniture
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
politician; statesman
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
painter; artist
novelist; fiction writer
family lineage
farmer; farming family; farmhouse
private house
house; building
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
patriarch; family head
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
family name; house name; family honour; family honor
chief retainer; daimyo's minister
distinguished family; noted family; family status in the Imperial Court; master (of a craft); expert
(my) wife; inside the home; one's family
merchant; store; shop; merchant house; merchant family
court noble; nobility; Imperial Court
head of family; originator
house where one was born; one's parents' house
house where one was born; one's parents' house
steward; butler
house; dwelling; human habitation
wealthy person
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
hard worker; hardworking person
family crest
household economy; family finances
employer's house; master's house
master; expert; mansion; large house; rich family; distinguished family
family status
critic; reviewer; commentator
good family; respectable family; decent family
capitalist; financier
family precepts; family motto; rule of the home
scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
enthusiast; fan; lover; devotee; aficionado
martial artist; fighter
businessman; industrialist
ambitious person
person who has great confidence (faith) in himself
one's own house; own; personal; autologous
domestic; in the family
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
performing musician
researcher; student (of)
religious leader; person of religion; religious figure; religionist
household economy; housekeeping; homemaking
avid reader; bookworm
producer; director
household belongings; household goods; family fortune; family assets
epicure; gourmet
dilettante; person of fantastic taste
townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family
engraver; carver; sculptor
family tradition; (arch.) wind blowing from the direction of one's home
martial artist
one's family; one's clan
rakugo story teller; comic story teller
martial artist
devoted husband
mountain villa; house in the mountains; mountain retreat
various families; various schools of thought
playwright; dramatist
historian
diligent student; studious person
glutton; gormandizer; gormandiser
layperson; layman; laywoman; country home; farmhouse; cottage
domicile; premises
family trade; family business; steward (of an estate)
optimist; easy-going person
dwelling; house; residence; den; habitat
banker; bank proprietor; bank manager
(historical) hereditary stipend
mountain climber; mountaineer
one's in-laws (esp. a woman's in-laws)
private house; one's own house
tactician; strategist; schemer; maneuverer
wasteful person; spendthrift
entrepreneur; person who starts a new business
tactician; strategist
educator; teacher
dancer; dancing master; dancing mistress
house for rent; house to let; building a house; built house
writer; author; literary person; one who lives from writing
industrialist; entrepreneur
key animator; lead animator
thrifty person; frugal person; economizer
professional comic (rakugo) storyteller
enterprising man; businessman; industrialist
activist; campaigner; crusader (e.g. for women's rights); athlete; sporty person
wealthy individual; person of wealth
family tradition
steward; butler; attendant
karate practitioner
occupant of a house; family member; household member (incl. servant)
artist who produces Western-style paintings
conspirator; plotter
charitable person; philanthropist
small and simple home
soldier; tactician; strategist
wine shop; liquor store; pub; heavy drinker
traveller; traveler
calligrapher; individual with good penmanship
domestic uses
wealthy and powerful family
orator; eloquent speaker; accomplished orator
practical individual
hen-pecked husband
one's homeland; one's old home
lyric writer; lyricist; songwriter
charitable person; philanthropist; volunteer; supporter
dreamer; daydreamer; visionary
your home
(my) elder brother
virtuous person
family court
tactician; strategist
houseboy; manservant
fortunes of a family
judo practitioner; judoka
the imperial family or household
very wealthy person; millionaire
judge; appraiser
collected waka poems (of a single poet)
person with a sharp tongue
person with a head for business
family property
poor home
kind person; warmhearted person; sympathetic person
passionate person
loyalist to the emperor; imperial loyalist
superstitious person
man of letters; writer
dog lover; person who loves dogs
speaker; orator
Confucianist
construction of a house (divination term); form of a house
heirloom; trump card; last resort; family tradition
aviator; pilot
pedigree; genealogy
landscape artist; landscape painter; landscapist
man of affairs
scholar of Japanese mathematics; expert of Japanese maths
staying at home
family code
pious man; religionist
diligent worker; hard worker
sociable person
beekeeper; apiarist
the whole family; the whole house
creative writer
economical person; thrifty person; saver
lawyer; legalism (school of Chinese philosophy)
demagogue; agitator
practical person; man of action; doer
talkative person; chatterbox
family custom
lecher; philanderer
(skilled) writer; essayist
diplomat; diplomatic person
neijia (Chinese martial arts style); internal martial arts
big eater; trencherman; glutton
brewer; distiller; vintner
Buddhist; researcher of Buddhism
related family
household possessions
veteran; expert
watercolorist; watercolourist; watercolor painter; watercolour painter
craftsman; artisan
demagogue; agitator
speculator; venturer
homeless; family in mourning
philatelist; stamp collector
Buddhist temple
hereditary learning
letter from home
person of great renown
reformer; reformist
able individual; man of ability
(male) cross-dresser; transvestite
playboy; playgirl; fast liver; person with an active sex life
political tactician
(historical) government-backed school operated by a scholar out of his home
financier; investor
person who dislikes smoking; anti-smoker; militant nonsmoker
farmer; agriculturalist
gunner; artillerist
capable person; shrewd person
School of Diplomacy; one of the Schools of Thought during the Warring States period in China
drinker; drunkard
connoisseur; judge
exemplary farmer; outstanding farmer
doer; person of action
contributor (e.g. to a newspaper); correspondent
meditator; meditation practitioner
mohist; follower of mohism
contributor (of articles); contributing writer
diviner (esp. of the Yin and Yang system); sorcerer; exorcist; medium
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
popular character
physical culturist; athlete
the teacher's home
sociable person
(music) arranger; orchestrator
posthouse; station; post station
printmaker; woodblock artist; copperplate engraver
textile industrialist
governing one's family
breeder; grower
person who is knowledgeable about Japan; Japanologist
word from home
connoisseur; devotee
habitual drinker
environmental activist; environmentalist
miscellanist; miscellaneous writer
comic storyteller
moneymaker; money-grubber
women's movement activist; feminist activist
your house
furniture; fixtures
decorator; ornamentalist
head of the house
martial artist; fighter
loyalist to the emperor; imperial loyalist
domestic poultry
ready writer; prolific writer; productive writer
family which supports a temple; parishioner
professional comic (rakugo) storyteller
talkative person; chatterbox
aikido practitioner
radio operator
influential family; the man in power
cross-fertilization
consumer; customer
metal carver; chaser; engraver
historian of science; science historian
Onmyōdō astrologist
expert in old writing