首
shǒu HSK3

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首 shǒu
[poem/song] measure word
measure word for poems and songs

我只唱了一首。

wǒ zhǐ chàng le yī shǒu.

I only sang one song.

first adjective
(bound form) first; highest; earliest

你早上做的首件事将决定你的一天是什么样子的。

nǐ zǎo​shang zuò de shǒu jiàn shì jiāng jué​dìng nǐ de yī​tiān shì shén​me yàng​zi de.

The first thing you do in the morning will determine what your day is going to be like.

head nounverb
(bound form) head; skull
chief noun
(bound form) leader; chief; person in charge
to confess verb
(bound form) to surrender and confess one's crime
beginning
(bound form) beginning; start; opening part
side
(bound form) side; direction; used as a suffix after direction words
surname
a Chinese surname
Radical 185
the 185th Kangxi radical
to inform on
(bound form) to report or bring a charge against an accomplice or criminal

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
481st most common 439.5 per million
Movie subtitles
519th most common 276.0 per million appears in 67% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
164.0 per million appears in 29% of films
Written text
170.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9996

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)