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首
shǒu
chief, head, leader
💡 Ideographic:
A deer's head 自 adorned with antlers 丷
HSK 4
9 strokes
Very Common (5%)
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zì
自
self; private, personal; from
📷 Pictographic:
A nose; in China, people refer to themselves by pointing to their noses
6 strokes
HSK 3
unknown
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Unknown component - strokes not mapped to a known radical
1 strokes
Words Using 首 (155)
Character
Pinyin
Definition
HSK
首先
↗
shǒuxiān
first (of all) / in the first place
4
shǒuxiān
首先
↗
HSK 4
first (of all) / in the first place
首都
↗
shǒudū
capital (city) / CL:[[個|个<gè>]]
4
shǒudū
首都
↗
HSK 4
capital (city) / CL:[[個|个<gè>]]
首
↗
shǒu
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
5
shǒu
首
↗
HSK 5
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
元首
↗
yuánshǒu
head of state
6
yuánshǒu
元首
↗
HSK 6
head of state
首要
↗
shǒuyào
the most important / of chief importance
6
shǒuyào
首要
↗
HSK 6
the most important / of chief importance
首饰
↗
shǒushì
jewelry / head ornament
6
shǒushì
首饰
↗
HSK 6
jewelry / head ornament
首相
↗
shǒuxiàng
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
shǒuxiàng
首相
↗
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
首次
↗
shǒucì
first / first time / for the first time
shǒucì
首次
↗
first / first time / for the first time
匕首
↗
bǐshǒu
dagger
bǐshǒu
匕首
↗
dagger
首席
↗
shǒuxí
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
shǒuxí
首席
↗
chief (representative, correspondent etc)