主

main; master, owner

No. 71 most used

How it's built

• 丶drop
• 王king, jade

A way to remember it

A flame (丶) over a lamp stand (王): whoever keeps it lit is the master.

Words

• 主意

  zhǔ yi

  plan; idea; decision
• 公主

  gōng zhǔ

  princess
• 主人

  zhǔ rén

  owner; host; master
• 主要

  zhǔ yào

  main; principal; major; primary
• 主演

  zhǔ yǎn

  to play the leading role; to star; lead actor
• 主席

  zhǔ xí

  chairperson; premier; chairman

Sentences

• 他想到一个好主意。

  tā xiǎng dào yí ge hǎo zhǔ yi

  A good idea occurred to him.
• 他接受了我的主意。

  tā jiē shòu le wǒ de zhǔ yi

  He accepted my idea.
• 我想到了一个主意。

  wǒ xiǎng dào le yí ge zhǔ yi

  An idea came to me.
• 我有了一个新主意。

  wǒ yǒu le yí ge xīn zhǔ yi

  A new idea came to me.

Your progress is saved in this browser. In the app it comes with you, along with your own songs and videos. Get the app

How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.