Word Meaning 主人公

しゅじんこう shujinkou

主人公 is read as しゅじんこう (shujinkou) and means head (of a household).

Meaning

English

  1. head (of a household)
  2. proprietor (of a store)
  3. protagonist
  4. main character
  5. hero
  6. heroine

Reading

Kana

しゅじんこう

Romaji

shujinkou

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 11 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 10901 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

主人

しゅじん

one's husband

ご主人

ごしゅじん

your husband

公人

こうじん

public character

人道主義

じんどうしゅぎ

humanism

朝鮮民主主義人民共和国

ちょうせんみんしゅしゅぎじんみんきょうわこく

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

公益法人

こうえきほうじん

juridical (legal) person working for the public good

個人主義

こじんしゅぎ

individualism

公証人

こうしょうにん

notary public

人間中心主義

にんげんちゅうしんしゅぎ

anthropocentrism

人本主義

じんぽんしゅぎ

humanism

人民主義

じんみんしゅぎ

populism

人民民主主義

じんみんみんしゅしゅぎ

people's democracy

Example Sentences

10

This protagonist is too insensitive.

The play concludes with the hero's death.

As expected, the main character is cool.

The play concludes with the hero's death.

A protagonist as plain and ordinary as him is rare indeed.

The main character dies at the end of the book.

The true protagonist wasn't shot by anybody.

So what happens to the protagonist at the end?

However the protagonist is aware of his own mistakes.

I used to watch this anime a lot when I was a kid, but I can't quite remember what happened to the hero in the final episode.