(shǒu) - head, first, chief in Mandarin
shǒuTraditional: 首
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Translation
head, first, chief
Word origin
A pictograph of a head, showing hair (the strokes on top) above the face with eye 目, hence head, and by extension first or chief.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- depicts hair above a face with eye 目
Stroke order
首
Examples
，。
First of all, I want to thank you.
。
This is his first song.
。
He is our chief.
。
This song sounds lovely.
诗。
He wrote a poem.
首 (shǒu) means head or first, anchoring 首先 (shǒuxiān, first of all) and 首都 (shǒudū, capital).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 首.
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