首

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Noun 3.3 Etymology 3.3.1 Noun 3.4 Kanji 3.4.1 Readings 3.4.2 Compounds 3.4.3 See also 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Namely 𩠐, Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 巛 (“‘丷’”) + 𦣻

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

[edit] Han character

首 (radical 185 首+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹月山 (THBU), four-corner 8060₁)

1. head
2. first
3. leader, chief
4. a poem

[edit] Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/首

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1427, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44489
• Dae Jaweon: page 1953, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4500, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9996

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

首 (Yale sau2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

首 (hiragana くび, romaji kubi)

1. neck (part of the body connecting head and torso)
2. the neck and head as a whole
3. one's life
4. tell

   百人一首

   ひゃくにんいっしゅ

   Hyaku-nin-ittsu-shu

   Each one telling from many person; poems from many person.

   自首

   じしゅ

   Jishu

   Telling one's criminality by oneself.

5. (首にする, verb) dismiss; fire; sack

[edit] Noun

首 (hiragana おびと, romaji obito)

1. one who rules or commands a group of people; a chief

[edit] Etymology

kamipe > kampe > kaube > koːbe. Compound of either kami (“‘upper’”) or kami (“‘hair’”) with the suffix pe (“‘location’”).

[edit] Noun

首 (hiragana こうべ, romaji kōbe, historical hiragana かうべ)

1. (part of the body) head

[edit] Kanji

首 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: しゅ (shu), しゅう (shū)
• Kun: くび (kubi), こうべ (koube), しるし (shirushi)

[edit] Compounds

• 機首 (kishu)
• 手首 (tekubi)
• 足首 (ashikubi)
• 花首 (hanakubi)
• 首っ引き (kubippiki)
• 猪首 (ikubi)

[edit] See also

• 頭

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

首
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 수 (revised: su, McCune-Reischauer: su, Yale: swu)

• Name (hangeul): 머리 (revised: meori, McCune-Reischauer: mŏri)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

首 (pinyin qiú (qiu2), shǒu (shou3), Wade-Giles ch'iu², shou³)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

首 (thủ, thú)