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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
- —可謬主義fallibilism
- —重金主義bullionism
- —過激主義extremism; radicalism
- —超越主義transcendentalism
- —捜査主任chief investigator; head of the investigation; lead investigator
- —開発領主local warriors, or provincial or district officials, who developed paddy field lands
- —主要料理main course; main dish
- —主とするmostly involve; principally involve
- —主体思想Juche (North Korean political ideology)
- —女主人公heroine; female protagonist
- —女権主義feminism
- —領土主権territorial sovereignty
- —自主回収voluntary recall (e.g. of faulty goods)
- —能力主義meritocracy; merit system
- —主対角線principal diagonal; main diagonal
- —悲観主義pessimism
- —応能主義ability-to-pay principle (of taxation)
- —自主制作independent production (e.g. of a film)
- —絶対君主absolute monarch
- —主力戦車main battle tank; MBT