首

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

1. Kangxi radical #185, ⾸.

• Index:Chinese radical/首
• 𠃺, 𫮐, 𡞝, 𭛼, 𢰢, 𪳂, 道, 𣮹, 𤠁, 𪼼, 𫤞, 𫋎, 𨲛

• 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

Historical forms of the character 首
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Simplified from 𩠐 (巛 → 丷). Originally pictographic (象形) . In the oracle bone script, it appeared with or without hair (巛), but 𩠐, the form with hair, was the form that was perpetuated.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lu; cognate with Mizo lu (“head”). This word has also been compared with Proto-Austronesian *quluh (“head”) (Malay hulu) and Proto-Tai *klawᶜ ~ krawᶜ (“head; hair knot”) (Thai เกล้า (glâao, “hair; head”)), and was used by Sagart to support his Sino-Austronesian hypothesis. Compare 道 (OC *l'uːʔ, “path, road”) (with the same phonetic component) and its relationship with Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road, way”).

This word was replaced by 頭 (OC *doː, “head”) by the Warring States period, possibly due to early homophony with 手 (OC *hnjɯwʔ, “hand”).

首

1. (anatomy) head
2. chief; leader
3. start; beginning
4. first; best; highest
5. prime; prior; primary
6. side; direction
7. Classifier for songs and poems. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

首

1. to report someone to the authorities
2. to plead guilty
3. to face (a direction)

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. neck
2. counter for songs and poems
3. beginning, first

• Go-on: しゅ (shu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: くび (kubi, 首, Jōyō); おびと (obito, 首); こうべ (kōbe, 首); しるし (shirushi, 首); つかさ (tsukasa, 首)
• Nanori: おびと (obito); こべ (kobe); す (su)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) くび [kùbí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝbʲi]

• 頸

首 (hiragana くび, rōmaji kubi)

1. neck (part of the body connecting head and torso)
2. the neck and head as a whole
3. dismissal from employment

首 (hiragana おびと, rōmaji obito)

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

• Appendix:Gikun_Usage_in_Meiji_Version_of_Japanese_Bible/首

kamipe > kampe > kaube > koːbe. Compound of either 上 (kami, “upper”) or 髪 (kami, “hair”) with the suffix 方 (he, “location”).

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

1. (part of the body) head

首 (hiragana しゅ, rōmaji -shu)

1. poems and songs

首 (hiragana しゅ, rōmaji shu)

1. (rare) The first one; a lord

• 頭

首 • (su)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 수 (McCune–Reischauer: su, Yale: swu)
  • Name (hangeul): 머리 (revised: meori, McCune–Reischauer: mŏri)

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首 (thủ, thú)

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