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		Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
		打狗還得看主人	打狗还得看主人	[da3 gou3 hai2 dei3 kan4 zhu3 ren2]	/lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom)/fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him/	2563	1
		名從主人	名从主人	[ming2 cong2 zhu3 ren2]	/(idiom) to refer to sth by the name its owners use/to refer to a place by the name its inhabitants use (e.g. refer to Seoul as 首爾\|首尔[Shou3 er3] rather than 漢城\|汉城[Han4 cheng2])/	1592	1
		女主人	女主人	[nü3 zhu3 ren2]	/hostess/mistress/	7102	1
		女主人公	女主人公	[nü3 zhu3 ren2 gong1]	/heroine (of a novel or film)/main female protagonist/	6553	1
		主人翁	主人翁	[zhu3 ren2 weng1]	/master (of the house)/main character in a novel etc/hero or heroine/	5187	1
		主人	主人	[[zhu3ren2]]	/owner/host/master/	4	2
		主人公	主人公	[[zhu3ren2gong1]]	/hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist/	533	2

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