Kanji1 / 9
首 kanji
neck, counter for songs and poems
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
シュ
Kun readings
くび
Words with 首
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —首counter for songs and poems
- —首肯assent; consent
- —首府capital (city)
- —船首bow (of a boat); prow; stem; head
- —落首lampoon; satirical poem
- —梟首exposure of a severed head
- —馘首dismissal; discharge; beheading; decapitation
- —鳩首going into a huddle
- —首級decapitated head of an enemy
- —斬首decapitation; decapitated head
- —巻首beginning (of a scroll, book, etc.)
- —馬首neck of a horse
- —首足head and legs; the body
- —首将commander-in-chief
- —首座seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table; head
- —首魁ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot); forerunner; pioneer
- —首題heading of a document (letter, notice, etc.); opening phrase of a sutra
- —稽首bowing to the floor
- —期首beginning of a term
- —絞首hanging; strangling to death