首都
shǒu dū 3–1
capital (city)
- Characters
- 2
- 首 · 都
- Syllables
- 2
- shǒu dū
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 4,483
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 首shǒu9 strokesHSK 3head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185
- 都dōu12 strokesHSK 1metropolis, capital; all, the whole; elegant, refined
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我住在首都。
Wǒ zhù zài shǒu dū
I live in the capital.
首都天气有雨。
Shǒu dū tiān qì yǒu yǔ
The weather in the capital is rainy.
海地的首都是什么？
Hǎi dì de shǒu dū shì shén me
What is the capital of Haiti?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 首都. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 都dōuHSK 1
all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all
- 首shǒuHSK 4
head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- 首先shǒu xiānHSK 3
first (of all); in the first place
- 全都quán dōuHSK 5
all; without exception
- 都会dū huìHSK 7
city; metropolis
- 首席shǒu xíHSK 6
chief (representative, correspondent etc)
- 首相shǒu xiàngHSK 6
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
- 都市dū shìHSK 6
city; metropolis
- 首批shǒu pīHSK 7
first batch
- 首要shǒu yàoHSK 7
the most important; of chief importance
- 元首yuán shǒuHSK 7
head of state
- 首饰shǒu shìHSK 7
jewelry; head ornament
- 首脑shǒu nǎoHSK 6
head (of state); summit (meeting); leader
- 大都dà dōuHSK 5
for the most part; on the whole; also pr. [dà dū]
- 回首huí shǒuHSK 7
to turn around; to look back; (fig.) to recall the past
- 首府shǒu fǔHSK 7
capital city of an autonomous region
- 为首wéi shǒu
head; be headed by
- 罪魁祸首zuì kuí huò shǒuHSK 7
criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit; fig. main cause of a disaster
- 首次shǒu cìHSK 6
first; first time; for the first time
- 首创shǒu chuàngHSK 7
to create; original creation; to be the first to do sth
- 俯首fǔ shǒuHSK 7
to bend one's head