9 strokes

neck, counter for songs and poems

Kunくび
Onシュ

Radicals

Common words

  • 首相しゅしょう
    prime minister, chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.), premier
  • 首脳しゅのう
    head, leader, top, important part
  • 党首とうしゅ
    party leader
  • 首都圏しゅとけん
    Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area, metropolitan area (of a capital)
  • 首位しゅい
    first place, head position, leading position
  • 元首げんしゅ
    sovereign, ruler, head of state
  • 一首いっしゅ
    one tanka, one poem
  • 首長しゅちょう
    head (of organization, organisation), chief, sheikh, emir
  • 首謀しゅぼう
    plotting, planning (crime, intrigue), ringleader, mastermind, leader (of a plot)
  • 機首きしゅ
    nose (of plane)
  • 縛り首しばりくび
    (death by) hanging
  • 首脳部しゅのうぶ
    executives, top management, governing body
  • 首領しゅりょう
    head, chief, boss, leader
  • 首班しゅはん
    head, leader, prime minister
  • 首切りくびきり
    decapitation, beheading, firings, dismissals, layoffs, downsizing, small samurai sword used for decapitation
  • 船首せんしゅ
    bow (of boat), prow, stem
  • 百人一首ひゃくにんいっしゅ
    (Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu, classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets, hyakunin isshu karuta, hyakunin isshu poetry cards
  • 首筋くびすじ
    nape of the neck, back of the neck, scruff of the neck
  • 絞首刑こうしゅけい
    death by hanging, execution by hanging
  • 首飾りくびかざり
    necklace, choker
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