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首 shǒu cabeza, jefe

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Stroke order

首 is written in 9 strokes.

首 — the Chinese character for cabeza, jefe (shǒu), stroke diagram
Stroke diagram for 首 — cabeza, jefe

Senses

  1. head
  2. chief
  3. first (occasion, thing etc)
  4. classifier for poems, songs etc

Related words

首 is pronounced shǒu and means “cabeza, jefe”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 首 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.