头 (頭) tóu

1. tóu noun head
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Of a person or animal; for example, 人头 '[human] head' (Guoyu '頭' n 1; Unihan '頭')
2. tóu measure word measure word for heads of cattle, etc
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (Guoyu '頭' n 9; Norman 1988, p. 115).
3. tóu noun top
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Of an object; in the sense of 顶端 (Guoyu '頭' n 4; Unihan '頭')
4. tóu noun a piece; an aspect
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '頭' n 6)
5. tóu noun a leader
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Of a group or company; in the sense of 首领 (Guoyu '頭' n 3; Unihan '頭')
6. tóu adjective first
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: For example, 头奖 'first place' (Guoyu '頭' adj 1)
7. tou suffix head
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: A noun suffix dating in Chinese vernacular to the Nanbeichao; for example, 拳头 'fist' (Guoyu '頭' tou; Norman 1988, p. 114)
8. tóu suffix top; side; head
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: A localizing suffix, for example 里头 'inside' and 外头 'outside' or nominal suffix, as in 舌头 'tongue' and 老头 'old man' (Norman 1988, p. 162; Sun 2006, loc. 714)
9. tóu noun hair
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 头发; for example, 剪头 'get a haircut' (Guoyu '頭' n 2)
10. tóu noun start; end
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of a situation (Guoyu '頭' n 5; Unihan '頭')
11. tóu noun a commission
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of a transaction or gambling proceeds; as in 抽头 (Guoyu '頭' n 7)
12. tóu noun a person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 老实头 'an honest person' (Guoyu '頭' n 8)
13. tóu noun direction; bearing
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 方位 (Guoyu '頭' n 10)
14. tóu adjective previous
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 在先 (Guoyu '頭' adj 2)

Contained in

• 头名(頭名) first place; leader (of a race)
• 头索类(頭索類) lancelet (Branchiostoma)
• 心头(心頭) mind
• 花头(花頭) trick; pattern; novel idea; knack
• 头饰(頭飾) head ornament
• 一级头(一級頭) first stage (diving)
• 试镜头(試鏡頭) screen test
• 昏头(昏頭) to lose one's head; to be out of one's mind; to be dazed
• 苗头(苗頭) first signs; development (of a situation)
• 二锅头(二鍋頭) erguotou (sorghum liquor)
• 星头啄木鸟(星頭啄木鳥) grey-capped pygmy woodpecker (Dendrocopos canicapillus)
• 改头换面(改頭換面) constantly changing faces; unceasing change
• 数码单镜头反光相机(數碼單鏡頭反光相機) digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR)
• 老头(老頭) old man
• 老婆孩子热炕头(老婆孩子熱炕頭) wife, kids and a warm bed; the simple and good life
• 满头大汗(滿頭大汗) brow beaded with sweat; perspiring freely
• 开弓没有回头箭(開弓沒有回頭箭) once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back; once you started sth, there's no turning back; to have to finish what one started
• 批头(批頭) screwdriving bits
• 大祸临头(大禍臨頭) facing imminent catastrophe; calamity looms; all hell will break loose
• 一个头两个大(一個頭兩個大) to feel as though one's head could explode
• 柱头(柱頭) a capital; a column capital
• 头领(頭領) head person; leader
• 头儿(頭兒) leader
• 磕头(磕頭) to bow; to kowtow
• 百尺竿头(百尺竿頭) to be at the highest level of enlightenment (Buddhist expression)
• 山头(山頭) mountain top
• 懒骨头(懶骨頭) lazybones; beanbag
• 地头(地頭) place; locality; edge of a field; lower margin of a page
• 死对头(死對頭) arch-enemy; sworn enemy
• 妹妹头(妹妹頭) bob (hairstyle)
• 户头(戶頭) tax ; a bank account
• 头灯(頭燈) headlamp
• 额头(額頭) forehead
• 有头有尾(有頭有尾) where there's a start, there's a finish; to finish once one starts something; to carry things through
• 内六角圆柱头螺钉(內六角圓柱頭螺釘) hexagon socket head cap screw
• 镰刀斧头(鐮刀斧頭) the hammer and sickle
• 杀头(殺頭) to behead
• 头盖骨(頭蓋骨) skull; cranium
• 冤家对头(冤家對頭) enemy; opponent; arch-enemy
• 十字街头(十字街頭) crossroads
• 圆石头(圓石頭) boulder
• 针头(針頭) the tip of a hypodermic needle
• 劈头盖脸(劈頭蓋臉) splitting the head and covering the face; pelting (with rain etc); showering down
• 杖头钱(杖頭錢) money for buying wine
• 断头(斷頭) to decapitate ; to short sell [stocks]
• 头套(頭套) actor's headgear; wig; head covering
• 齐头(齊頭) at the same time; simultaneously
• 头部(頭部) head

Also contained in

钉头鼠尾描 、 汕头大学 、 虎头牌

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Truncated for common words

• 卷11　志第6　禮儀六 Volume 11 Treatises 6: Rites 6 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 70
• 卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 48
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 42
• 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 40
• 卷一百四十四 志第九十七 儀衞二 Volume 144 Treatises 97: Ceremonial Guards 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 36
• 卷一百六十九 志第一百二十二 職官九 Volume 169 Treatises 122: Offical Posts 9 History of Song 宋史 — count: 34
• 《頁部》 Yè Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 34
• 卷四十一　志第二十二:　儀衞上 常朝儀衛內外立仗、常行儀衛行仗 法駕黃麾仗 Volume 41 Treatises 22: Ceremonial Guards 1 - Inner and Outer Armed Guards of Honor in Regular Court Assemblies; Marching Armed Guards; Armed Imperial Command Carriage History of Jin 金史 — count: 33
• 第八十六回 Chapter 86 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 33
• 第四十五回 Chapter 45 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 32

Collocations

• 岸头 (岸頭) 岸頭 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《建元以來侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period — count: 6
• 王头 (王頭) 乃持項王頭視魯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《項羽本紀》 Annals of Xiang Yu — count: 5
• 头足 (頭足) 是貴其冠履而忘其頭足也 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十　泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 5
• 头侯 (頭侯) 岸頭侯張次公為將軍 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《漢興以來將相名臣年表》 Yearly Table of Statesmen, Generals and Officials since the Han Dynasty's Founding — count: 5
• 仑头 (侖頭) 侖頭易苦漢使矣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《大宛列傳》 Treatise on the Dayuan — count: 4
• 在后头 (在後頭) 她將悔恨在後頭 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧江有汜 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Jiang You Si — count: 2
• 屦头 (屨頭) 謂屨頭有拘飾也 — Xunzi 荀子, 哀公篇第三十一 Chapter 31: Duke Ai — count: 2
• 南头 (南頭) 至西山南頭 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十九 溝洫志 Volume 29: Treatise on Rivers and Canals — count: 2
• 头仰 (頭仰) 頭仰足肣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners — count: 2
• 头兰 (頭蘭) 行誅頭蘭 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《西南夷列傳》 Treatise on the Southwestern Yi people — count: 2