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)
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On readings
シュ
Kun readings
くび
Words with 首
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —首脳会合summit meeting; meeting of leaders
- —首楞厳経Suramgama Sutra
- —頓首再拝respectfully yours
- —首班指名Diet nomination of a prime minister
- —次期首相incoming prime minister
- —臨時首都temporary capital; provisional capital
- —首相兼外相prime minister also serving as foreign minister
- —首位攻防戦game or series of games between the first and second place teams
- —首相公選制system allowing for election of the prime minister by popular vote
- —首席補佐官chief of staff (esp. of US president)
- —首尾は上々excellent outcome; highly successful result; turning out very well
- —首尾一貫したconsistent
- —鶴首して待つto wait expectantly; to be full of anticipation; to long for
- —国家元首夫人first lady
- —小倉百人一首Ogura Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets
- —首相指名選挙vote by the Diet to appoint the prime minister
- —首相臨時代行acting prime minister
- —首都直下地震Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes
- —首都師範大学Capital Normal University
- —主要国首脳会議Group of Seven; G7