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  *首* | 首* | *首
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
HSK 4
to bend one's head
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
head of state
HSK 7-9
radical of a Chinese character
seat of honor / first place
Shishou, county-level city in Jingzhou 荊州|荆州, Hubei
chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao) / abbr. for 特別行政區首席執行官|特别行政区首席执行官
to behead; to decapitate
to gather / to meet
head / be headed by
to give oneself up / to surrender (to the authorities)
dagger
leading / in first place / top of the list
head high / in high spirits / to raise one's head (e.g. of neighing horse)
top of the list
chief / first / brightest and best
to raise one's head and look
bitter and hateful (idiom) / to grieve and lament (over sth)
the top of the page / (word processing) page header
(idiom) criminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster
head of a society / sponsor of an organization
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.)
to kowtow / also written 磕頭|磕头
handsome male companion / gigolo
ship's bow
to behead
kowtow
doorway / gate / entrance
chief offender / main culprit
to immerse oneself in (one's work, studies etc)
white head of hair / fig. old person
start of the year
prefix
left-hand side
right-hand side
holder for door knocker
to nod one's head
to offer one's life in sacrifice
beginning / start / opening / in the beginning / to start / to open
hornless dragon head (used as ornamentation, esp. gargoyles)
death by hanging
Jieshou, county-level city in Fuyang 阜陽|阜阳, Anhui
(of a headhunter) to sever a head
bow of a warship
start of a ten day period
head of state
bandit
start of phrase or sentence
Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛
candidate who ranked 1st in imperial examination on prefecture or county level (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
extremely angry / infuriated / enraged / headache caused by anger
lit. a thunder of dragons without a head / fig. a group lacking a leader
head and shoulders above the crowd (idiom); preeminent / outstanding


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