首

head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

首 = 䒑 + 自 : In the outhouse, the chief lends his piece pipe to Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock smokes some weed in the pipe and looks at himself in a hand mirror, thinking that he's uber cool and that he'd pass as a quite formidable chief himself.

首 character breakdown

首
- 自
  - 丶
  - 目
    - 二
      - 一
    - 囗
- 䒑
  - 一
  - 丷

自

zì = z + Ø4

self / oneself / from / since / naturally / surely

自 = 丶 + 目 : Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.

The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).

䒑

Character component without intrinsic meaning

䒑 = 丷 + 一 : Mnemonic symbol: weed. A crocodile (丷) is smoking weed (䒑) in a flute (一).

Characters with 首 as component

道

dào = d + ao4

road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)

道 = 辶 + 首 : The chief and Don Quixote decided to follow the path of the Dao in the aorta's bathroom. They wear gladiator sandals and meditate sitting on the floor of the bathroom, envisioning the path to enlightment.

馗

kuí = ku + ei2

cheekbone / crossroads / high

艏

shǒu = sh + ou3

bow of a ship

馘

guó = gu + o2

(literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy