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


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