主人公
Chinese
just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister | |||
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simp. and trad. (主人公) |
主人 | 公 |
Etymology
Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 主人公 (shujinkō), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 主人公 (zhǔréngōng).
Pronunciation
Japanese
Kanji in this term | ||
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主 | 人 | 公 |
しゅ Grade: 3 |
じん Grade: 1 |
こう Grade: 2 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 主人公 (MC t͡ɕɨoX ȵiɪn kuŋ).
Noun
主人公 (hiragana しゅじんこう, rōmaji shujinkō)
- a protagonist (main character)
- この物語の主人公は蛙である。
- Kono monogatari no shujinkō wa kaeru dearu.
- The main character in this story is a frog.
- この物語の主人公は蛙である。
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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