Radical 185

Radical 185 or radical head (首部) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

首
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首 (U+9996) "head"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shǒu
Bopomofo:	ㄕㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:	shou3
Cantonese Yale:	sau2
Jyutping:	sau2
Japanese Kana:	シュ shu / シュウ shū (on'yomi) くび kubi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	수 su
Hán-Việt:	thủ, thú
Names
Japanese name(s):	首/くび kubi
Hangul:	머리 meori
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

首 is also the 187th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	首
+2	馗
+8	馘

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/首

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a second grade kanji.^[1]