in English

tóu noun, measure word, adjective HSK 2
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]
tou suffix HSK 5
suffix for nouns

Measure word

  • (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested

Stroke order

Le caractère 头 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 头 Show the animation
Le caractère 頭 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 頭, the traditional character: 头 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “汤姆,我得告诉你点事。我爱某个人。他的名字以T开头以M结尾。”“呃,那能是谁?我认识吗?

    "Tom, I have to tell you something. I love someone. His name starts with T and ends with M." "Er, who would that be? Is it someone I know?"

  • Jane在运动会之前把头发剃短了。

    Jane had her hair cut short before the athletic meeting.

  • 不要对狗丢石头。

    Don't throw a stone at the dog.

  • 今天我头痛欲裂。

    I have a bad headache today.

  • 从远看得话,这个石头看起来像人的脸。

    Seen from a distance, the stone looks like a human face.

  • 他从头到脚都湿了。

    He was wet all over.

  • 他从头到脚都湿透了。

    He was soaking wet from head to toe.

  • 他们打了一场枕头战。

    They had a pillow fight.

All example sentences with 头

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