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首
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Definitions
- 1. head
- 2. chief
- 3. first (occasion, thing etc)
- 4. classifier for poems, songs etc
Example Sentences
1 shown首 先我們必須處理這個問題。
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Words Containing 首
capital city of an autonomous region
Jishou, county-level city and capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[xiāng xī tǔ jiā zú miáo zú zì zhì zhōu], Henan
first (hotel of its type, store of its type etc)
first issue
Shishou, county-level city in Jingzhou 荊州|荆州[jīng zhōu], Hubei
lit. a thunder of dragons without a head
chief information officer (CIO)
prefix
chief
Chief Justice (of US Supreme Court)
severed head
bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient
also written 首善之地[shǒu shàn zhī dì]
initial letters
to initiate
chief representative
bandit
seat of honor
home page (of a website)
Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)
ship's bow
bow of a warship
creator
to immerse oneself in (one's work, studies etc)
kowtow
acronym
to nod one's head
premiere of a movie
main offender, criminal ringleader (idiom); main culprit
head of state
death by hanging
head high
first floor
corpse
head (of state)
to kowtow
chief offender
handsome male companion
start of a ten day period
capital (city)
onset (linguistics)
initial public offering (IPO)
head high, chest out (idiom); to keep up one's spirits
head of state
first time
Beijing Capital International Airport
afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous
to bend one's head
candidate who ranked 1st in imperial examination on prefecture or county level (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
first batch
chief operating officer (COO)
to anxiously await
to be decapitated (idiom)
to behead
to gather
to count as number one (idiom); second to none
start of the year
first choice
to win the first battle
first session (of a conference etc)
hornless dragon head (used as ornamentation, esp. gargoyles)
debut
capital territory
to bow before (idiom)
(idiom) to hesitate
the most important
chief financial officer (CFO)
lit. with disheveled hair and a dirty face
doorway
the Capital Theater (in Beijing)
head
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
to be fawningly submissive (idiom)
criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit
Jishou, county-level city and capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[xiāng xī tǔ jiā zú miáo zú zì zhì zhōu], Henan
start of phrase or sentence
the top of the page
see 圖窮匕見|图穷匕见[tú qióng bǐ xiàn]
Seoul National University SNU
Capital University of Business and Economics, Beijing
Jieshou, county-level city in Fuyang 阜陽|阜阳[fù yáng], Anhui
Capital University of Economics and Business (Beijing)
acronym
leading
first organized
to nod and smile
Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛[sūn zhū]
Australian Capital Territory
to create
onset and rime
white head of hair
jewelry
leadership meeting
to confess one's crime
chief executive officer (CEO)
radical of a Chinese character
head of state
to behead
chief executive of Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong or Macao)
to stroke one's hair coquettishly (idiom)
senior official
local capital
(of a headhunter) to sever a head
Shishou, county-level city in Jingzhou 荊州|荆州[jīng zhōu], Hubei
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
former prime minister
to bear the brunt
first fixation duration
to follow blindly (idiom)
to turn around; to look back
to give oneself up
first round (of a competition etc)
first season
left-hand side
first place
first day cover (philately)
no first use (policy for nuclear weapons)
Mt Xianshou in Hubei
striding forward with head high (idiom); to walk with spirited and vigorous step
start frame delimiter (SFD)
first (of all)
to premiere (a movie or TV show)
to join head to tail
top of the list
to emphasize
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城[hàn chéng])
first person to be appointed to a post
dictionary arrangement of Chinese characters under radicals
principal county magistrate in imperial China
right-hand side
to regard as the foremost
first case
nodding acquaintance
Chinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum)
richest individual
head and shoulders above the crowd (idiom); preeminent
to behead sb and display the head in public
leadership conference
Chief Justice
foreword
dagger
down payment
down payment
extremely angry
first
to give a nod of approval
head and tail
head; boss; chief
Seoul Special Metropolitan City, official name of the capital of South Korea
Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
Jieshou, county-level city in Fuyang 阜陽|阜阳[fù yáng], Anhui
head of a society
to raise one's head and look
bitter and hateful (idiom)
chief marketing officer (CMO)
beginning
summit talks
chief technology officer (CTO)
to offer one's life in sacrifice
maiden stage role