首

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified from 𩠐 (巛 → 丷). Originally Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 巛 + 𦣻.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/首
• 道

See also

• 頁 敢

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

首 (Yale sau2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

首 (POJ shíu, Guangdong shu³, shiu³ [Meixian], s'iu³ [Hailu, Kwangtung], sii³ [Siyan], su³, siu³ [Bao'an], Hagfa Pinyim su3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

首 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

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

Etymology 1

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

Compounds

• kubiwa

Etymology 2

Noun

首 (hiragana おびと, romaji obito)

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

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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

1. (part of the body) head

Etymology 4

Counter

首 (hiragana しゅ, romaji -shu)

1. poems and songs

See also

• 頭

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Korean

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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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

首 (thủ, thú)