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capital (city) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
first (of all) / in the first place
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *首* | 首* | *首
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
HSK 4
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
HSK 6
first / first time / for the first time
HSK 6
head (of state) / summit (meeting) / leader
HSK 6
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
jewelry / head ornament
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
head of state
HSK 7-9
the most important / of chief importance
HSK 7-9
capital city of an autonomous region
HSK 7-9
first batch
HSK 7-9
to bend one's head
HSK 7-9
(idiom) criminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster
HSK 7-9
to originate; to pioneer; to invent
HSK 7-9
to nod one's head
onset and rime
chief representative
Chinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum) / fleeceflower root
home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
the Capital Theater (in Beijing)
first issue / first public showing
capital territory / Australian Capital Territory (ACT) around Canberra 堪培拉
to premiere (a movie or TV show) / premiere (of a movie) / first-run (movie) / to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room)
first round (of a competition etc)
radical of a Chinese character
senior official
dagger
head / be headed by
to behead; to decapitate
richest individual / top millionaire
Shishou, a county-level city in Jingzhou City 荊州市|荆州市, Hubei
head; boss; chief
top of the list
to count as number one (idiom); second to none / outstanding
first person to be appointed to a post
dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离 or 屍首異處|尸首异处, decapitation is implied.)
first place
to raise one's head and look
to bear the brunt
maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing
to bow before (idiom) / to capitulate
to be decapitated (idiom)
head and tail
head of a society / sponsor of an organization
candidate who ranked 1st in imperial examination on prefecture or county level (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
(idiom) the finest place in the nation (often used in reference to the capital city)
leadership conference / summit meeting
chief offender / main culprit
head high / in high spirits / to raise one's head (e.g. of neighing horse)
to immerse oneself in (one's work, studies etc)
first day cover (philately)
start of the year
to follow blindly (idiom) / to take as one's only guide
(idiom) to hesitate / to remain undecided
beginning / start / opening / in the beginning / to start / to open
Jieshou, a county-level city in Fuyang City 阜陽市|阜阳市, Anhui
Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛
lit. a thunder of dragons without a head / fig. a group lacking a leader
seat of honor / first place
holder for door knocker
to give oneself up / to surrender (to the authorities)
to gather / to meet
hornless dragon head (used as ornamentation, esp. gargoyles)
striding forward with head high (idiom); to walk with spirited and vigorous step / to strut
(idiom) to strike a coquettish pose
to behead sb and display the head in public
lit. with disheveled hair and a dirty face / of unkempt appearance (idiom)
extremely angry / infuriated / enraged / headache caused by anger
leading / in first place / top of the list
ship's bow
Jishou, a county-level city in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州, Hunan
bitter and hateful (idiom) / to grieve and lament (over sth)
left-hand side
severed head
to kowtow / also written 磕頭|磕头
to give a nod of approval
kowtow
to offer one's life in sacrifice
bandit
handsome male companion / gigolo
to initiate
to be fawningly submissive (idiom)
head high, chest out (idiom); to keep up one's spirits / in fine mettle (of animal)
death by hanging
afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous / afraid of the slightest thing
first season / first quarter
white head of hair / fig. old person
right-hand side
bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient / at sb's beck and call
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城)
to nod and smile
to regard as the foremost / to name as a prime example / to implement for the first time

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