Kanji1 / 5
主 kanji
lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
シュスシュウ
Kun readings
ぬしおもあるじ
Words with 主
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —主原料principal raw material; main raw material
- —主要紙major newspaper; leading newspaper; widely circulated newspaper
- —副主席vice president (of China); vice chairman
- —主唱者leading advocate; important proponent; strong advocator
- —主厨長head palace chef
- —主調音keynote
- —民主制democracy; democratic system of government
- —主戦場main theater of war; principal battlefield; main market; principal area of competition
- —主寝室main bedroom; master bedroom
- —主浴槽main bath (i.e. in a bathhouse)
- —主婦業homekeeping; housekeeping; housewifery
- —自主練voluntary training; voluntary practice; free practice
- —領主制manorial system; manorialism
- —主婦層housewife demographic; housewives
- —主尋問direct examination; examination-in-chief
- —天主堂(Catholic) church; cathedral
- —主読紙most-read newspaper (in a region)
- —僭主制tyranny
- —若主人young owner; young proprietor
- —無主物ownerless property; bona vacantia