首 – vocab dash

Keyword

neck

counter for songs and poems

Frequency: #98
Strokes: 9
Grade: 2
JLPT (old): N3
Heisig: 74

Readings

シュ77%

くび23%

Mnemonic

At the hunting lodge, a deer spots antlers on a wall and nervously checks itself, running a hoof along its neck where the saw would bite.

Stroke order

Composed of

䒑antlers on a wall 自self

Used in kanji

道roadway 馗road 衜way 馘behead

Used in vocabulary

首しゅ相しょう

prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier

Noun

首しゅ脳のう

head; leader; top

Noun

首しゅ都と圏けん

Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area; metropolitan area (of a capital)

Noun

neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing; sacking

Noun

首しゅ席せき

head; chief; top student; head of the class; top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

Noun

首しゅ都と

(national) capital (city); metropolis

Noun

党とう首しゅ

party leader

Noun

一いっ首しゅ

one tanka; one poem

Noun

首しゅ位い

first place; head position; leading position

Noun

乳ち首くび

nipple; teat

Noun

元げん首しゅ

sovereign; ruler; head of state

Noun

首しゅ長ちょう

head (of organization, organisation); chief; sheikh; emir

Noun

手て首くび

wrist

Noun

首しゅ脳のう部ぶ

executives; top management; governing body

Noun

足あし首くび

ankle

Noun

百ひゃく人にん一いっ首しゅ

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

Noun

首しゅ謀ぼう

plotting; planning (crime, intrigue); ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)

Noun

首くび輪わ

(animal) collar; necklace; choker

Noun

首しゅ級きゅう

decapitated head of an enemy

Noun

斬ざん首しゅ

decapitation; decapitated head

Noun

counter for songs and poems

Counter

office; official; chief; head

Noun

Obito (hereditary title, often given to powerful regional families)

Noun

首このかみ

eldest son; older brother; older sister; older person; head of a clan; head of a region; skilled craftsman

Noun