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
- —主任教授head (of a university department); chairperson
- —精神主義spiritualism; idealism
- —独善主義self-righteousness
- —敗北主義defeatism
- —編集主幹editor-in-chief
- —現場主義bottom-up approach to management; on-the-spot decision-making; hands-on approach (policy, etc.)
- —自主退職voluntary retirement
- —派閥主義factionalism
- —民主改革democratic reform
- —家族主義familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family
- —官僚主導initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians)
- —玉砕主義the principle of honorable death and no surrender
- —減点主義demerit system; points-off system
- —主義主張one's principles and position
- —主従関係the relation of master to servant; homage; master-slave relationship
- —政治主導initiative taken by politicians (rather than by bureaucrats, in the formulation of a policy or bill)
- —専業主夫full-time househusband; stay-at-home dad
- —総花主義the principle of pleasing everyone; make-everybody-happy policy
- —退嬰主義backward-looking philosophy (ideology); conservatism
- —店主敬白Store owner, at your service; Yours truly, the Store Owner