主角 (zhǔ jué) means “leading role; lead; protagonist”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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他在这部电影中演主角。
Tā zài zhè bù diànyǐng zhōng yǎn zhǔjué.
He plays the lead role in this film.
Updated: 2026-07-18