頭 (tóu)
head/top/beginning/end/chief
How 頭 is written
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 豆 — bean
- Traditional
- 頭
- Simplified
- 头
Components
- 豆 bean
- 頁 leaf
頭 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- tóu
- head; hair style; the top; end
- tou
- suff. for nouns
Common words using 頭
- 回頭 huítóu
- to turn round; to turn one's head; later
- 年頭 niántóu
- start of the year; whole year; a particular year
- 抬頭 táitóu
- to raise one's head; to gain ground; account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc
- 枕頭 zhěntou
- pillow
- 洗頭 xǐtóu
- to wash one's hair; to have a shampoo
- 盡頭 jìntóu
- end; extremity; limit
- 石頭 shítou
- stone; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- 碼頭 mǎtóu
- dock; pier; wharf
- 街頭 jiētóu
- street
- 鏡頭 jìngtóu
- camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene
- 頭像 tóuxiàng
- portrait; bust
- 頭暈 tóuyūn
- dizzy
頭 in a sentence
我今天頭有點痛。
Wǒ jīntiān tóu yǒudiǎn tòng.
“My head hurts a little today.”
How common is 頭?
頭 is the 147th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 49.4% of all running text.
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