主人公

Chinese

		master; owner; host	just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
trad. (主人公)		主人	公
simp. #(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 (zhǔréngōng).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǔréngōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu² jan⁴ gung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǔréngōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǔréngong
    • Wade–Giles: chu³-jên²-kung¹
    • Yale: jǔ-rén-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juurengong
    • Palladius: чжужэньгун (čžužɛnʹgun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu² jan⁴ gung¹
    • Yale: jyú yàhn gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy² jan⁴ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju² yen⁴ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³⁵ jɐn²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 主人公

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

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

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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 (MC tsyuX nyin kuwng).

Noun

主(しゅ)人(じん)公(こう) • (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

• → Chinese: 主人公 (zhǔréngōng)
• → Korean: 주인공 (ju'in'gong)

See also

• 主(しゅ)人(じん) (shujin)
• ヒーロー (hīrō)
• ヒロイン (hiroin)
• 敵(かたき)役(やく) (katakiyaku)

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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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)