首: neck
- JLPT level N3
- 9 strokes
- Radical 首
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Readings
On’yomi
- シュ
Kun’yomi
- くび
On’yomi and kun’yomi?
On’yomi are readings that came from Chinese, written here in katakana. Kun’yomi are native Japanese readings, written in hiragana. Which one is used depends on the word: kanji in compounds often take an on’yomi, and a kanji standing alone often takes a kun’yomi.
Stroke order
Strokes from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Example words
- 首neck
- 一首one tanka; one poem
- 機首nose (of plane)
- 元首sovereign; ruler; head of state
- 自首surrender (to the authorities); giving oneself up; turning oneself in
- 手首wrist
Where do these words come from?
They are common words containing 首, from JMdict, picked automatically with words made of easier kanji first. They are not graded by JLPT level.
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Additional detailsSchool grade, frequency, Unicode and sources
- School grade
- Grade 2 (primary school)
- Newspaper frequency
- 98 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 首 no. 185
- Unicode
- U+9996
School grade comes from the Japanese school curriculum. Frequency is the rank among the 2,500 most common kanji in newspapers. Neither is a JLPT level.
Sources for this entry
- KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0): meanings, on’yomi, kun’yomi, stroke count, school grade, newspaper frequency, radical
- Jonathan Waller's JLPT kanji lists (CC BY): JLPT level
- JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0): example words
- KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0): stroke order