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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
- —船主協会shipowners' association
- —合法主義legalism; constitutionality
- —反民主的anti-democratic
- —職権主義inquisitorial system; nonadversarial system
- —国主大名daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)
- —報復主義revanchism
- —枝の主日Palm Sunday
- —先例主義following precedent (instead of trying something new); reliance on precedent
- —前例主義following precedent (instead of trying something new); reliance on precedent
- —本質主義essentialism
- —構築主義social constructionism
- —自主避難voluntary evacuation
- —自主休講cutting class (esp. of university students)
- —貴族主義aristocratism; patricianism; concept that only the nobility is qualified to rule
- —連邦主義federalism
- —互恵主義reciprocity; reciprocity principle
- —発展主義developmentalism
- —開発主義developmentalism
- —情緒主義emotivism
- —自主退学voluntary withdrawal from school; dropping out of school of one's own accord