| zhǔ | to own/to host/master/lord/primary |
| 主 | owner master host |
| 主上 | Your Majesty; my lord |
| 主不先客 | guests or visitors first (idiom) |
| 主业 | main business |
| 主义 |
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| 主事 | take charge |
| 主井 | main shaft; haulage shaft |
| 主产 | main product |
| 主人 | master host CL:個|个 |
| 主人公 | hero (of a novel or film) main protagonist |
| 主人翁 | master (of one's own destiny etc) |
| 主仆 | master and servant |
| 主从 | master-slave (computing) client-server (computing) primary and secondary |
| 主从架构 | [Computer] client-server model |
| 主从界面 | [Computer] a client-server interface |
| 主任 | director head CL:個|个 |
| 主任委员 | chairman |
| 主伐 | principle felling; final clearing; principal felling; regeneration-cutting; harvest cutting |
| 主位 | status of a sovereign; seat of the host |
| 主体 | main part subject agent |