家主

Chinese

		home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools	to own; to host; master to own; to host; master; lord; primary
simp. and trad. (家主)		家	主

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiāzhǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚㄓㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹ zyu²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kâ-chú
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ke-chú

(Teochew, Peng'im): gê¹ zu²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ka-tsy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiāzhǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚㄓㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiajhǔ
  - Wade–Giles: chia¹-chu³
  - Yale: jyā-jǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiajuu
  - Palladius: цзячжу (czjačžu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaa¹ zyu²
  - Yale: gā jyú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹ dzy²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ga¹ ju²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː⁵⁵ t͡syː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâ-chú
  - Hakka Romanization System: ga^ˊ zu^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ga¹ zu³
  - Sinological IPA: /ka²⁴ t͡su³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ke-chú
  - Tâi-lô: ke-tsú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kezuo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ke⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ke³³ t͡su⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ke⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ke⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ke⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: gê¹ zu²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ke tsú
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ke³³⁻²³ t͡su⁵²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹ka-tsy
  - MiniDict: ka^平 tsy
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ka-tsr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ka⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/

Noun

家主

(literary, dated in Wu) master of a household; head of a family; patriarch

Synonyms

(Wu, dated) 家主公

Japanese

Kanji in this term
家	主
や Grade: 2	ぬし Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) やぬし [yáꜜnùshì] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [ja̠nɯ̟ɕi]

Noun

家(や)主(ぬし) • (yanushi)

owner of a house
landlord or landlady