主 – Kanji details

Keyword

(one's) master

Info

Frequency	Top 100-200
Type	Kyōiku (3rd grade) ?
Kanken	Level 8
Heisig	284
Readings	しゅ (70%) ぬし (20%) おも (4%) ず (2%) しゅう (1%) あるじ (1%)
	すじゅあるぬしのじ

Composed of

丶

droplet

王

king

Mnemonic

Have you ever seen a king with even a single drop of sweat on his head? Of course not. A king is the master of everything and everyone in his realm. There's no way he's going to do any kind of work that gets him sweaty.

Used in kanji (7 in total)

pour

live in

pillar

go (with the intention to come back)

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Used in vocabulary (1179 in total)

主ぬし

head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)

主しゅ人じん

head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host

主しゅ張ちょう

claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

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