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首
shǒu
1. head
2. chief
3. first (occasion, thing etc)
4. classifier for poems, songs etc
HSK 5 Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 9 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

首
shǒu
chief, head, leader
HSK 4 9 丶

Compound Words (20)

上首
shàngshǒu
seat of honor
俯首
fǔshǒu
to bend one's head
元首
yuánshǒu
head of state
HSK 6
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

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