主
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owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 丶 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 主
- Common rank
- #64
- Unicode
- U+4E3B
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
lord · Heisig RSH #277
a drop of + 王 king + 玉 jade — as a component also called: candlestick
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 主
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大地主 | a large landowner | |
| 主子 | Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine) | |
| 主人 | owner; host; master | |
| 中国中心主义 | Sinocentrism | |
| 主人公 | hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist | |
| 地主 | landlord; landowner; host | |
| 一家之主 | master of the house; head of the family | |
| 天主 | God (in Catholicism); abbr. for 天主教[Tian1 zhu3 jiao4], Catholicism | |
| 自主 | to act independently; to be autonomous; to be in control of one's own affairs | |
| 家主 | head of a household | |
| 小公主 | lit. little princess; fig. spoiled girl; female version of 小皇帝[xiao3 huang2 di4] | |
| 主理人 | (coll.) person in charge, manager (originally, chiefly in Hong Kong, Macau); (esp.) creati… | |
| 花花公主 | playgirl | |
| 主动 | to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: pass… | |
| 主机 | main engine; (military) lead aircraft; (computing) host computer; main processor; server | |
| 国家主义 | nationalism; statism | |
| 金主 | financial backer; bankroller | |
| 主日学 | Sunday School | |
| 主体 | main part; bulk; body; subject; agent | |
| 人文主义 | humanism |
Sound family
These characters use 主 as their sound component — compare how they read.