首

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/首

Glyph origin
. Originally of an animal with a long mouth and horns. In the oracle bone script, it appeared with or without hair, but , the form with hair, was the form that was perpetuated.

Etymology
From ; cognate with 🇨🇬. This word has also been compared with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬) and 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), and was used by Sagart to support his. Compare (with the same phonetic component) and its relationship with 🇨🇬.

This word was replaced by by the  period, possibly due to early homophony with.

Definitions

 * 1)  head
 * 2) chief; leader
 * 3) start; beginning
 * 4) first; best; highest
 * 5) prime; prior; primary
 * 6) side; direction
 * 1) prime; prior; primary
 * 2) side; direction

Definitions

 * 1)  to report someone to the authorities; to plead guilty
 * 2)  to face (a direction)
 * 1)  to face (a direction)

Kanji

 * 1) neck
 * 2) counter for songs and poems
 * 3) beginning, first

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) neck (part of the body connecting head and torso)
 * 2) the neck and head as a whole
 * 3) dismissal from employment
 * 1) dismissal from employment
 * 1) dismissal from employment
 * 1) dismissal from employment

Derived terms

 * goose's neck, something resembling a goose's neck; corona circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males
 * bowl part of a pipe; human neck or head
 * goose's neck, something resembling a goose's neck; corona circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males
 * bowl part of a pipe; human neck or head

Etymology 2
From. First cited to the  of 720.

Shift from.

→

Noun

 * 1)  one who rules or commands a group of people: a chief

Etymology 3
From. First cited to the  of 720.

Analyzed as a shift from earlier kamipe, as a compound of either or  with the suffix.

→ →  →  →

Etymology 4
From.

Counter

 * 1) poems and songs

Noun

 * 1)  the first one; a lord

Etymology
From.