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首 shǒu

shǒu noun head
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 头 (CC-CEDICT '首'; Guoyu '首' n 1; Kroll 2015 '首' 1, p. 419; Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Scroll 10; Unihan '首'; XHZD '首' 1, p. 688)
shǒu measure word measure word for poems
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '首'; Guoyu '首' n 5; Kroll 2015 '首' 5, p. 419; Unihan '首'; XHZD '首' 6, p. 688)
shǒu noun Kangxi radical 185
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: First (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '首' n 7)
shǒu noun leader; chief
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 元首 'head of state' (CC-CEDICT '首'; Guoyu '首' n 2; Unihan '首'; XHZD '首' 2, p. 688)
shǒu adjective foremost; first
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '首'; Guoyu '首' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '首' 2, p. 419; Unihan '首'; XHZD '首' 3, p. 688)
shǒu verb to obey; to bow one's head
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 俯首; for example in 千字文 ”Thousand Character Classic”, 黎首 'obeyed by the common people' (Kroll 2015 '首' 4, p. 419; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 421)
shǒu noun beginning; start
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 岁首 start of the year (CC-CEDICT '首'; Guoyu '首' n 3; Kroll 2015 '首' 3, p. 419; Unihan '首'; XHZD '首' 4, p. 688)
shǒu verb to denounce
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 告发 (Guoyu '首' v 2; XHZD '首' 5, p. 688)
shǒu noun top; apex
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '首' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '首' 1a, p. 419)
shǒu verb to acknowledge guilt
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '首' 4a, p. 419)
shǒu noun the main offender
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '首' 4b, p. 419)
shǒu noun essence; gist
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 要领 (Guoyu '首' n 4)
shǒu noun a side; a direction
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 方 (Guoyu '首' n 5)
shǒu verb to face towards
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 朝向 (Guoyu '首' v 1)
shǒu noun head; śiras
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: śiras, Japanese: shu, or: shū (BCSD '首', p. 1280; MW 'śiras'; SH '首', p. 318; Unihan '首')

Contained in

魔醯首罗(魔醯首羅) Mahesvara
我稽首礼(我稽首禮) I bow in respect
大佛顶如来密因修证了义诸菩萨万行首楞严经(大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經) Great Might Arrived Bodhisattva’s Thinking-of-Buddhas as the Perfect Passage; Śūraṅgama Sūtra
首楞严定(首楞嚴定) Suramgama Samadhi
呪三首经(呪三首經) Three Mantras Sutra; Zhou San Shou Jing
毘首羯磨 Visvakarma; Visvakarman
首楞伽摩 śūraṅgama; heroic; resolute
鹿首宿 Mṛgaśirā
首楞严义疏注经(首楞嚴義疏注經) Notes on the Meaning of the Śūraṅgama sūtra
头首(頭首) group of head monastics in a monastery
南天祖承摩醯首罗之文(南天祖承摩醯首羅之文) in Southern India the script of Maheshvara was passed down
首卢(首盧) sloka
首波讫栗那(首波訖栗那) Subhakrtsna
梵志女首意经(梵志女首意經) Śrīmatībrāmaṇīparipṛcchā; Fanzhi Nu Shou Yi Jing

Also contained in

螭首、马首是瞻、首脑会晤、茭首、北首、祸首罪魁、首相、首字母缩写、部首、俯首帖耳、岁首、菰首、回首、首部、首脑会议、首办、印首、聚首、首途、举首、枭首、首付款、首府、首例、自首、尸首、首位、首任、翘居群首、俯首称臣、首席信息官、首届、首席代表、身首异处、岘首山、首席技术官、首音

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Truncated for common words

Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 90
Scroll 5 Ji Shamen Bu Ying Bai Su Deng Shi 集沙門不應拜俗等事 — count: 74 , has English translation
Scroll 1 Questions of Nāgaśrī 佛說濡首菩薩無上清淨分衛經 — count: 74
Scroll 5 Dai Zong Chao Zeng Sikong Da Bian Zheng Guang Zhi San Zang He Shang Biao Zhi Ji 代宗朝贈司空大辨正廣智三藏和上表制集 — count: 64
Scroll 15 Xin Huayan Jing Lun 新華嚴經論 — count: 63
Scroll 1 Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana (Wenshu Zhi Li Pu Chao Sanmei Jing) 文殊支利普超三昧經 — count: 63
Scroll 3 Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana (Wenshu Zhi Li Pu Chao Sanmei Jing) 文殊支利普超三昧經 — count: 56
Scroll 12 Collection of Records Concerning the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chu San Zang Ji Ji) 出三藏記集 — count: 56
Scroll 2 Dai Zong Chao Zeng Sikong Da Bian Zheng Guang Zhi San Zang He Shang Biao Zhi Ji 代宗朝贈司空大辨正廣智三藏和上表制集 — count: 53
Scroll 1 Universal Gate Sutra (Pumenping Jing) 佛說普門品經 — count: 53

Collocations

象首 (象首) 共象首舍利弗詣世尊所 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 17 — count: 18
原首 (原首) 大眾之原首 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 15
轻贱首 (輕賤首) 是名輕賤首 — An Alternative Translation of the Saṃyukta Āgama (Saṁyukatāgamasūtra) 別譯雜阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 11
首迦 (首迦) 首迦摩納都耶子所見供養 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 15 — count: 9
首上 (首上) 以為首上鬘 — An Alternative Translation of the Saṃyukta Āgama (Saṁyukatāgamasūtra) 別譯雜阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 8
首免 (首免) 光音諸天首免其災 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 9 — count: 6
拜首 (拜首) 拜首白言 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 6
心首 (心首) 愛愍不去心首 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 6 — count: 6
垂首 (垂首) 征營竦慄拱手垂首 — Brahmāyus Sūtra (Fanmoyu Jing) 梵摩渝經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
时首 (時首) 是時首迦即白佛言 — Fo Weishou Jia Zhengzhe Shuo Yebao Chabie Jing (Śukasūtra)佛為首迦長者說業報差別經, Scroll 1 — count: 5