首
How to pronounce 首
MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.
首 character breakdown
Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.
Characters with 首 as component
Words with 首
Sentences with 首
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head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc
Prompt snippets
The chief is a police chief, a middle-aged man wearing a crisp, navy-blue wool uniform adorned with polished silver badges, gold-braided epaulets, and a stiff peaked cap. His face features deep-set eyes and a neatly trimmed gray mustache, with a heavy leather utility belt cinched around his waist.