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为主

為主traditional

#1509 by frequency

wéi zhǔ

to rely mainly on; to attach most importance to

Examples

我们日本人以米饭为主食。

We Japanese live on rice.

大部分日本人都以米饭为主食。

Most Japanese live on rice.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.