Today’s first #kanji is #首, which makes its own radical. Apparently it is a pictograph depicting a person’s face and the hair… Make sure that the bottom part is 自 with 2 lines in the box, not 白 with only one line.
Meaning: neck, beginning, the counter for poems
Reading: シュ、くび
首都（シュト）: a capital (city), a metropolis
首相（シュショウ）: a prime minister, a premier, a (German) chancellor
元首（ゲンシュ）:a sovereign, a ruler, the head of state
部首（ブシュ）: a radical (of a kanji)
自首（ジシュ）する: to surrender (voluntarily) to the police
首（くび）: a neck; a head
首（くび）になる: to be dismissed, to lose one’s job
首（くび）にする: to dismiss, to discharge, to fire/sack
手首（てくび）: a wrist, a carpus
足首（あしくび）: an ankle
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