首
This character means ‘head, neck,’ and is pronounced SHU or kubi in Japanese and shī in Chinese.
Here’s an ancient form:
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The idea seems to be that this character is just a representation of a head with hair.
Without the hair
自
we have another character that just means ‘self, oneself.’ It is said to represent the nose, to which Chinese point when they refer to themselves.
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