主人

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Chinese

 
to own; to host; master
to own; to host; master; lord; primary
 man; person; people
simp. and trad.
(主人) 		主 人
alternative forms 主儂／主侬 Min vernacular
anagram 人主

Pronunciation

Note: chú-lîn/chí-jîn/chú-jîn - literary.
Rime
Character 主 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 之庾切 如鄰切
Baxter tsyuX nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨoX/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕioX/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕioX/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cuə̆X/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕioX/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭuX/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯uX/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhǔ rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zyu2 jan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 主 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhǔ rén
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyuX › ‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*toʔ/ /*ni/
English master; host (other) person

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 主 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 17618 10800
Phonetic
component 		主 人
Rime
group 		侯 眞
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		主 仁
Old
Chinese 		/*tjoʔ/ /*njin/

Noun

主人

  1. master; owner
  2. host (person who receives or entertains other people as guests)

Synonyms

  • (master):
  • (host):

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (主人):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
主 人
しゅ
Grade: 3 		じん
Grade: 1
kan’on

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 主人 (MC tsyuX nyin).

Pronunciation

Noun

主(しゅ)人(じん) • (shujin) 

  1. (humble) (one's own) husband (use ご主人 to refer to somebody else's husband)
    Synonym: (husband) 夫 (otto)
    Antonyms: (wife) 妻 (tsuma), (someone else's wife) 奥さん (oku-san), (one's own wife) 家内 (kanai)
  2. someone's master
    ご主(しゅ)人(じん)様(さま)、ご命(めい)令(れい)を。
    Go-shujin-sama, go-meirei o.
    I await your orders, master.
  3. owner
  4. host or hostess

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  • 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

Noun

主人 • (ju'in) (hangeul 주인)

  1. Hanja form? of 주인 (“master or owner; proprietor”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
主人

Noun

主人

  1. chữ Hán form of chủ nhân (“master or owner; proprietor”).
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