主
Meanings
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- 1.owner
- 2.master
- 3.host
- 4.individual or party concerned
- 5.God
- 6.Lord
- 7.main
- 8.to indicate or signify
- 9.trump card (in card games)
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Wiktionary
- 1.owner; master
- 2.host
- 3.you (honorific second-person pronoun addressing a "senior official" [大夫] or his spouse)
- 4.God, Lord
- 5.emperor
- 6.person of a specified type
- 7.agent; agency
- 8.party; entity
- 9.main; primary; principal; major
- 10.to be in charge; to lead; to command
- 11.to indicate; to signify
- 12.a surname
- 13.Classifier for events.
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形). Three distinct forms can be observed in ancient scripts, all of which have merged into the same character in modern script: # A lamp or torch with a flame at the top. Original form of 炷. # Wood (木, now 王) on fire. # A spirit tablet. Same character as 示. Unrelated to the right component of 往 (< 𢓸). Unclear. Compare Tibetan ཇོ་བོ (jo bo, “elder brother, nobleman, lord”), Tibetan ཇོ་མོ (jo mo, “mistress, lady, goddess”), Tibetan ཐུ། (thu, “chief”), Proto-Monic *(d)ndooʔ (“to teach, to instruct; headman”), and Thai โจก (jòok, “leader, chief”) (Schuessler, 2007) Also compare Burmese အတို့ (a.tui., “honorific personal pronoun”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我熟悉這個主題。
I am familiar with this subject.
没有人可以共侍二主。
No man can serve two masters.
句子通常有主詞和動詞。
A sentence normally has a subject and a verb.
我天生是一個樂觀主義者。
I'm an optimist by nature.
湯姆是激進的環保主義者。
Tom is an environmental activist.
這些主張沒有科學的根據。
There is no scientific basis for these claims.
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Derived terms
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