首

meaning for 首 shǒu:

• - head
• - chief
• - first (occasion, thing etc)
• - classifier for poems, songs etcfirst (of all)
• - in the first placecapital (city)
• - Classifiers: 个 head (of state)
• - summit (meeting)
• - leaderprime minister (of Japan or UK etc)first session (of a conference etc)