头 (頭) tóu
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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') -
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). -
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') -
tóu
noun
a piece; an aspect
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '頭' n 6) -
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') -
tóu
adjective
first
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: For example, 头奖 'first place' (Guoyu '頭' adj 1) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
tóu
noun
start; end
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Of a situation (Guoyu '頭' n 5; Unihan '頭') -
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) -
tóu
noun
a person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 老实头 'an honest person' (Guoyu '頭' n 8) -
tóu
noun
direction; bearing
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 方位 (Guoyu '頭' n 10) -
tóu
adjective
previous
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 在先 (Guoyu '頭' adj 2)
Contained in
- 分头路(分頭路) part (in one's hair)
- 吐舌头(吐舌頭) to stick out one's tongue
- 披头散发(披頭散髮) with dishevelled hair
- 天星码头(天星碼頭) Star Ferry terminal, Hong Kong
- 鱼眼镜头(魚眼鏡頭) fisheye lens
- 地头(地頭) place; locality; edge of a field; lower margin of a page
- 定焦镜头(定焦鏡頭) prime lens
- 姘头(姘頭) lover; mistress
- 车头灯(車頭燈) (vehicle) headlight
- 斑翅凤头鹃(斑翅鳳頭鵑) pied cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus)
- 兜头(兜頭) full in the face
- 九头鸟(九頭鳥) legendary bird with nine heads ; cunning or sly person
- 瘾头(癮頭) addiction; craving
- 头刻(頭刻) seal sculpture
- 柱头(柱頭) a capital; a column capital
- 花墙头(花牆頭) an open screen window
- 露头(露頭) to show one's head; to give a sign to show one's presence
- 黑头噪鸦(黑頭噪鴉) Sichuan jay (Perisoreus internigrans)
- 垂头(垂頭) to lower the head
- 头颈(頭頸) neck
- 裤头(褲頭) underpants; (swimming) trunks
- 头儿(頭兒) leader
- 头脑发胀(頭腦發脹) swelling of the head (physical condition); swellheaded; conceited
- 大虎头蜂(大虎頭蜂) Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
- 杖头(杖頭) the head of a walking staff ; money for buying wine
- 印头鱼(印頭魚) shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
- 头虱(頭蝨) head lice
- 硬着头皮(硬著頭皮) to brace oneself to do something; to put a bold face on it; to summon up courage; to force oneself to
- 头香(頭香) the first stick of incense placed in the censer
- 头等(頭等) first class; prime; main
- 多头(多頭) many-headed; many-layered (authority); devolved (as opposed to centralized); pluralistic ; number of animals ; long term (finance); long (investment)
- 独占鳌头(獨占鰲頭) top rank in the Hanlin examinations
- 头七(頭七) the 7th day after a person's death; the first 7-day period after a person's death
- 乳头瘤(乳頭瘤) papilloma
- 砖头(磚頭) brick
- 股二头肌(股二頭肌) biceps femoris
- 头条(頭條) lead story (on the news)
- 竿头(竿頭) bamboo pole's uppermost tip
- 拳头产品(拳頭產品) competitive product; superior goods; with real punch
- 剃头匠(剃頭匠) barber
- 领头羊(領頭羊) bellwether
- 烟头儿(煙頭兒) cigarette butt
- 红翅凤头鹃(紅翅鳳頭鵑) chestnut-winged cuckoo (Clamator coromandus)
- 左箭头(左箭頭) left-pointing arrow
- 凤头鹀(鳳頭鵐) crested bunting (Emberiza lathami)
- 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
- 棕头雀鹛(棕頭雀鶥) spectacled fulvetta (Fulvetta ruficapilla)
- 年头(年頭) year; start of the year; whole year
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- 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
- 头曼 (頭曼) 宋景公頭曼元年 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords — count: 11
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 曰头 (曰頭) 匈奴單于曰頭曼 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《匈奴列傳》 Treatise on the Xiongnu — count: 3
- 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
- 黄头 (黃頭) 以濯船為黃頭郎 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《佞幸列傳》 Biographies of Flatterers — count: 2
- 三头 (三頭) 三頭民 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷四 墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms — count: 2