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首
shǒu
1.
head
2.
chief
3.
first (occasion, thing etc)
4.
classifier for poems, songs etc
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
上首
shàngshǒu
seat of honor
俯首
fǔshǒu
to bend one's head
元首
yuánshǒu
head of state
匕首
bǐshǒu
dagger
匪首
fěishǒu
bandit
句首
jùshǒu
start of phrase or sentence
叩首
kòushǒu
to kowtow
右首
yòushǒu
right-hand side
吉首
Jíshǒu
Jishou county level city and capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture [[湘西土家族苗族自治州<XiāngxīTǔjiāzúMiáozúzìzhìzhōu>]], Henan
回首
huíshǒu
to turn around
字首
zìshǒu
prefix
居首
jūshǒu
leading
尸首
shīshou
corpse
左首
zuǒshǒu
left-hand side
斩首
zhǎnshǒu
to behead
旬首
xúnshǒu
start of a ten day period
昂首
ángshǒu
head high
会首
huìshǒu
head of a society
案首
ànshǒu
candidate who ranked 1st in imperial examination on prefecture or county level (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
枭首
xiāoshǒu
to behead
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 4
- Character Frequency Rank
- 480
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,107 of 84,292
- Radical Number
- 185