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)
On readings
シュスシュウ
Kun readings
ぬしおもあるじ
Words with 主
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —水主sailor; seaman
- —鎮主local Shinto deity; tutelary god
- —天主castle tower
- —蕃主feudal lord; daimyo
- —主位first place; head position; leading position
- —主領head; chief; boss; leader
- —主脳者head; leading spirit
- —主謀者ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)
- —主脳部executives; top management; governing body
- —君主政monarchy
- —主殿造early phase of the shoin-zukuri residential architecture style
- —主脳会談leadership conference; summit meeting; top-level conference
- —浪漫主義romanticism
- —主客顛倒reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end
- —君主制体monarchy
- —主脳会議summit meeting; top-level conference
- —集散主義collectivism
- —白濠主義White Australia Policy (pre-1966 Australian immigration policy)
- —御主人様master; Your Lordship; My Lord; husband
- —些末主義trivialism