# 首 U+9996 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9996

A Chinese character meaning “head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185”, read shǒu in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `首` |
| Codepoint | U+9996 |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9996 |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `首` `首` |
| CSS | `\9996` |
| JavaScript | `\u9996` |
| UTF-8 | E9 A6 96 |
| UTF-16 | 9996 |
| Definition | head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185 |
| Mandarin | shǒu |
| Cantonese | sau2 |
| Japanese | SHU SHUU KUBI KOUBE SHIRUSHI |
| Korean | SWU |

## Related characters

- 馕 [U+9995 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9995](https://unicodekit.com/char/9995)
- 馗 [U+9997 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9997](https://unicodekit.com/char/9997)
- 馔 [U+9994 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9994](https://unicodekit.com/char/9994)
- 馘 [U+9998 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9998](https://unicodekit.com/char/9998)
- 馓 [U+9993 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9993](https://unicodekit.com/char/9993)
- 香 [U+9999 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9999](https://unicodekit.com/char/9999)
- 馒 [U+9992 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9992](https://unicodekit.com/char/9992)
- 馚 [U+999A CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-999A](https://unicodekit.com/char/999A)
- 馑 [U+9991 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9991](https://unicodekit.com/char/9991)
- 馛 [U+999B CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-999B](https://unicodekit.com/char/999B)
- 馐 [U+9990 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9990](https://unicodekit.com/char/9990)
- 馜 [U+999C CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-999C](https://unicodekit.com/char/999C)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/9996 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/9996