Illustration: At a small Japanese household-goods shop, the owner raises the entrance shutter with one hand while holding the shop’s keys in the other. An apron-clad assistant waits beside a trolley of neatly stacked bowls, looking to the owner for direction.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

主しゅ人じん

shujin

head of household, shop owner

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはこの家いえの主人しゅじんです。

    He is master of this house.

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  2. あなたはこの家いえの主人しゅじんですか。

    Are you the owner of this house?

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  3. 彼かれがあそこの酒屋さかやの主人しゅじんです。

    He is the owner of the liquor shop.

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Kanji in 主人

  • 主lord; chiefOnシュ・ス・シュウKunぬし・おも・あるじ
  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと

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