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主人公

主人公

Chinese

master; owner
 
just; honorable (designation); public; common
simp. and trad.
(主人公)
主人

Noun

主人公

  1. the protagonist of a story

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しゅ
Grade: 3
じん
Grade: 1
こう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

主人公 (hiragana しゅじんこう, romaji shujinkō)

  1. the protagonist, the leading character in a story
    この物語 (ものがたり)主人公 (しゅじんこう) (かえる)である。
    Kono monogatari no shujinkō wa kaeru dearu.
    The main character in this story is a frog.

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

主人公 (juin-gong) (hangeul 주인공)

  1. Hanja form? of 주인공, “main character”.