首
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
shǒu shou3
- head
- chief
- first (occasion, thing etc)
- classifier for poems, songs etc
Example sentences
- This song reminds me of my childhood.
HSK words with 首
- 首先 shǒuxiān first (of all)
- 首都 shǒudū capital (city)
- 首席 shǒuxí chief (representative, correspondent etc)
- 首相 shǒuxiàng prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
- 首脑 shǒunǎo head (of state)
- 首次 shǒucì first
- 首批 shǒupī first batch
- 首要 shǒuyào the most important
- 元首 yuánshǒu head of state
- 首饰 shǒushì jewelry
- 回首 huíshǒu to turn around; to look back
- 首府 shǒufǔ capital city of an autonomous region
- 为首 wéishǒu head
- 罪魁祸首 zuìkuíhuòshǒu criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit
- 首创 shǒuchuàng to create
- 俯首 fǔshǒu to bend one's head