neck (part of the body connecting head and torso) / the neck and head as a whole / dismissal from employment

(archaic) one who rules or commands a group of people: a chief

Alternative spelling of 頭 (“head”) (part of the body)

poems and songs

(rare) the first one; a lord

to be fired; to lose one's job

first / top / head / chief / leading

雁首: bowl (part of a pipe); human neck or head

common reed, Phragmites australis

(Classical Japanese; or literary and archaic) bad; evil