主人 zhǔrén▶ master

HSK 5HSK 3.0 · Level 2

HSK 5 — advanced proficiency: 1,300 new words, 2,500 in all. You can read newspapers, enjoy films and give speeches in Chinese. In HSK 3.0, 主人 is in band 2. HSK 5 explained

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中主人means master. Picture a visitor knocking at a big front door and asking the servant, is the master of the house at home? Say it with me.

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Stroke order

主人 is written in 7 strokes across 2 characters.

• 主 — 5 strokes
• 人 — 2 strokes

Senses

1. owner
2. host
3. master

Characters in 主人

• 主 zhǔ — owner; master; host
• 人 rén — person; people

Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Related words

• 个人personal
• 主任director, head, chair
• 主动active
• 主席Chairman
• 主张opinion
• 主持Host

主人 is pronounced zhǔrén and means “master”.