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元首

yuán shǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

元首 (yuán shǒu) means "head of state". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 元首 means

1. head of state

The characters in 元首

• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)

Words containing 元首

• 国家元首guó jiā yuán shǒuhead of state

Sounds the same

Read yuán shǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 援手assistance; a helping hand; to lend a hand

Where 元首 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yuán shǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.