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 3.1.1 Compounds 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, shu)

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-itsu-shu

   Hundred poems from all different poets (Each one told by another person).

   自首

   じしゅ

   Jishu

   Confess (telling one's criminality) out of one's own initiative.

5. (首にする, kubi ni suru, verb) dismiss; fire; sack

[edit] Compounds

• kubiwa

[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)