Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bicycle parking area, an angry adult has deliberately shoved another adult off balance. The shover's arm remains extended, palm aligned with the victim's shoulder, while the victim catches themselves against a bicycle rack and drops a grocery bag.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

加か害がい者しゃ

kagaisha

perpetrator, offender

Example sentences

  1. 被害者ひがいしゃと加害者かがいしゃが同席どうせきという前代未聞ぜんだいみもんの記者会見きしゃかいけんに現場げんばは騒然そうぜんとなった。

    Reporters in the room stirred since it was the unprecedented press conference where both the wrongdoer and the victim attended.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. お前まえまで加害者かがいしゃにされたらどうするんだよ。

    What will you do if they make you out to be a perpetrator too?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. その事件じけんの加害者かがいしゃは謝罪しゃざいした。

    The perpetrator of the incident apologized.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 加害者

  • 加add; additionOnカKunくわえる・くわわる
  • 害harm; injuryOnガイ
  • 者someone; personOnシャKunもの

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