Today’s #kanji is #主, which is listed under #てん（丶）. Apparently it is a pictograph showing a flame on a candlestick and it used to mean a “light” or “lamp” although it is not used for that meaning any more. Do you know what it means then? Can you read it?
Meaning: a head of a household, a lord, main
Reading: シュ、ス（ズ）、おも、ぬし、あるじ*
主語（シュゴ）: a subject; the subject 《of a sentence》
主人（シュジュン）: the master (of a house), an employer; my husband (older generation women often call their husband this way)
主人公（シュジンコウ）: a main character, a hero
民主主義（ミンシュシュギ）: democracy
主（シュ）: <Christianity> our Lord
法主（ホッス）: the head of a Buddhist sect
坊主（ボウズ）: a Buddist monk; a boy
主（おも）な: main, chief, major
家主（やぬし）: the owner of a house, a house owner, a landlord/landlady (of a house)
地主（ジぬし）: a landowner, a landholder, a landlord (of land)
主（ぬし）: the owner, the proprietor, the (main) person of an action （i.e. 拾（ひろ）い主（ぬし） = the finder (of a lost property))
主（あるじ）: head of a household, the master/lady of the house, a proprietor
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