Chinese Character 首 Meanings and components.

Form

首

首 meaning^[3] in English

Head.

Chief.

First (Occasion, Thing Etc).

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 首 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (䒑) , and self (自)

No radical has been identified in it.

To write首shou3head you should write a combination of 䒑cao3 , 自zi4self

䒑 + 自 = 首

The order of the strokes to write 首 should be followed in this specific way.

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 首, looks as follow:

Meaning^[3]: Head . Chief . First (Occasion, Thing Etc) . Classifier For Poems, Songs Etc

Meaning^[3]: Self . Oneself . From . Since . Naturally . Surely

Meaning^[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title

Meaning^[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]