(tóu) - head; first; measure word for cattle in Mandarin
tóuTraditional: 頭
HSK 3
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Translation
head; first; measure word for cattle
Word origin
頭 (tóu) means 'head'. It is a phono-semantic compound with 頁 (xié), an element depicting a head, as the meaning radical and 豆 (dòu, a stemmed vessel) as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 頁 (head radical) + 豆 (dòu, phonetic)
Stroke order
头
Examples
。
I have a headache.
低。
He lowered his head.
。
This is the first time.
。
My head hurts a little.
。
He nodded his head in agreement.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 头.
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