主人公

Chinese

 
master; owner; host; hostess
 
just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
simp. and trad.
(主人公)		 主人 公

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 主 (しゅ)人 (じん)公 (こう) (shujinkō), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 主人公.

Pronunciation

Noun

主人公

  1. protagonist (main character)
  2. (literary, honorific) host

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
主 人 公
しゅ
Grade: 3		 じん
Grade: 1		 こう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 主人公 (tsyuX nyin kuwng).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. a protagonist (main character)
    この物 (もの)語 (がたり)の主 (しゅ)人 (じん)公 (こう)は蛙 (かえる)である。
    Kono monogatari no shujinkō wa kaeru dearu.
    The main character in this story is a frog.

Descendants

See also

References

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

Korean

Hanja in this term
主人公

Noun

主人公 • (ju-in-gong) (hangeul 주인공)

  1. Hanja form? of 주인공 (“protagonist”). (main character)
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