首 (shǒu) — Chinese Character

首

shǒu

head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc

Radical: 首 HSK 4 m, q, g ideographic

Components & Etymology

首 decomposes into the following components:

丷自

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 首.

上首

shàng shǒu

为首

wéi shǒu

会首

huì shǒu

俯首

fǔ shǒu

元首

yuán shǒu

匕首

bǐ shǒu

匪首

fěi shǒu

句首

jù shǒu

叩首

kòu shǒu

右首

yòu shǒu

吉首

jí shǒu

回首

huí shǒu

Characters that share the radical 首.

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