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
- —首謀者ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)
- —上首尾great success; happy result; good result
- —不首尾failure; poor result; disfavour; disfavor; unpopularity
- —副首相deputy prime minister; vice prime minister
- —首唱者first proponent; initiator and advocate (e.g. of a theory)
- —元首相former prime minister; former premier; former chancellor
- —党首脳party leaders; party executive
- —首長国emirate; sheikdom
- —新首相new prime minister
- —頭首工weir (usu. for irrigation)
- —船首像figurehead (on a ship)
- —斬首刑decapitation
- —船首楼forecastle; fo'c's'le
- —絞首索hangman's noose; halter
- —首脳陣leaders; (the) leadership
- —百人首(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; hyakunin isshu karuta
- —首都高Shuto Expressway (network of toll expressways in the Kanto region)
- —前首相previous prime minister (immediately preceding the incumbent); former prime minister; ex-premier
- —副党首vice-president of a political party
- —首脳会談leadership conference; summit meeting; top-level conference