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主人公 (しゅじんこう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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The protagonist of this novel is a ten-year-old girl.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 主しゅ 人じん 公こう を 演えん じる to play the role of the protagonist
He played the protagonist in that movie.
〈 人ひと 〉 が 主しゅ 人じん 公こう になる to become the main character (often used metaphorically, e.g. of one's own life)
She wants to become the protagonist of her own life.
〈 人ひと 〉 が 主しゅ 人じん 公こう に 感かん 情じょう 移い 入にゅう する to emotionally identify with the protagonist
Readers quickly identified with the protagonist.
Kanji 公 public, prince, official Related words 主役 often overlaps with 主人公, but 主役 can also mean the leading actor or leading role in a performance, not just the character within the story.
主人 is the common word for the head of a household or shop owner, whereas 主人公 in this sense is a rarer, more formal way to refer to the same role.
主人公 is a gender-neutral word for 'protagonist' or 'main character', while ヒロイン specifically means the female lead.
主人公 means the protagonist or main character of a story, while ヒーロー specifically emphasizes heroic or admirable qualities.
Opposites 悪役 is the villain or antagonist role in a story, the natural opposite of the 主人公, the hero or protagonist.
主人公 is the protagonist or main character, the direct opposite of モブ, the nameless background character.
Don't confuse with 主人公 (protagonist) and 主人 (husband, master, or shop owner) share the same first kanji and are easy to mix up, but they normally have distinct meanings.
登場人物 refers to any character who appears in a story, while 主人公 specifically names the single central, most important character.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound written 主人公. 主人 means a master, household head, or proprietor, and 公 can have an honorific/personage nuance in compounds. The modern literary sense 'protagonist' is conventionally associated with this spelling; the detailed historical development is not specified.
