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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)
On readings
シュスシュウ
Kun readings
ぬしおもあるじ
Words with 主
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —国主king; sovereign; daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)
- —領主feudal lord
- —校主proprietor of a school
- —教主founder of a religious sect
- —当主(present) head of a family
- —英主great ruler
- —祭主(head) priest; head priest of the Ise Shrine
- —主傘main parachute
- —主述subject and predicate
- —主節principal clause
- —主著one's chief (literary) work; main work
- —主夫househusband; stay-at-home dad
- —像主subject (of a portrait or bust); a person posing for a portrait or bust; (historically) patron; someone who commissions a Buddhist temple or work of art
- —主桁main girder
- —主局master station
- —主菜main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish
- —主筋main reinforcement (in a reinforced-concrete structure)
- —主材main ingredients; chief materials
- —主鏡primary mirror (of a telescope); main mirror
- —主柱central pillar; principal post; backbone of a society or community