者 zhě — (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...

A way to remember it

A figure over a mouth or a sun, and long past clear reading. What is certain is the job it does: it turns a verb into the one who does it — 作者, 读者, 记者.

A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.

Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.