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

• 头等(頭等) first class; prime; main
• 尖头鱥(尖頭鱥) Chinese minnow (Phoxinus oxycephalus)
• 愣头愣脑(愣頭愣腦) rash; reckless
• 机头座(機頭座) headstock; turning head of a screw, drill, lathe etc
• 砖头(磚頭) brick
• 人头税(人頭稅) poll tax
• 一年到头(一年到頭) all year round
• 草字头(草字頭) name of Kangxi radical 140
• 低头认罪(低頭認罪) to bow one's head in acknowledgment of guilt; to admit one's guilt
• 头彩(頭彩) first prize in a lottery
• 拳头产品(拳頭產品) competitive product; superior goods; with real punch
• 矛头(矛頭) spearhead; barb; an attack or criticism
• 剪头(剪頭) to face someone
• 出人头地(出人頭地) to stand out among one's peers ; to excel
• 小萝卜头(小蘿蔔頭) little kid
• 枕头套(枕頭套) pillow case
• 头脑清楚(頭腦清楚) lucid; clear-headed; sensible
• 头儿(頭兒) leader
• 头条(頭條) lead story (on the news)
• 春字头(春字頭) name of spring part of character
• 不撞南墙不回头(不撞南牆不回頭) to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas
• 二头肌(二頭肌) biceps muscle
• 熬出头(熬出頭) to break clear of all the troubles and hardships; to achieve success; to make it
• 仓头(倉頭) a servant
• 唱头(唱頭) pickup (carrying gramophone needle)
• 搬石头砸自己的脚(搬石頭砸自己的腳) to move a stone and stub one's toe; to shoot oneself in the foot
• 头重(頭重) disequilibrium; top-heavy; heaviness in the head
• 奔头儿(奔頭兒) prospect
• 竹字头(竹字頭) name of alternate form of Kangxi radical 118
• 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
• 斑翅凤头鹃(斑翅鳳頭鵑) pied cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus)
• 头白齿落(頭白齒落) hair turns grey and teeth fall out
• 新头河(新頭河) Indus River
• 慢镜头(慢鏡頭) slow motion
• 印缅褐头雀鹛(印緬褐頭雀鶥) manipur fulvetta (Fulvetta manipurensis)
• 头足纲(頭足綱) cephalopod; Cephalopoda, class of mollusks including nautilus and squid
• 套头(套頭) (of a garment) designed to be put on by pulling it over one's head (like a sweater or T-shirt etc)
• 个头儿(個頭兒) size; height; stature
• 头箍(頭箍) headband
• 二婚头(二婚頭) remarried lady (contemptuous term); lady who marries for a second time
• 车头相(車頭相) photo attached to the front of a hearse in a funeral procession
• 领头羊(領頭羊) bellwether
• 棕头歌鸲(棕頭歌鴝) rufous-headed robin (Larvivora ruficeps)
• 肩头(肩頭) on one's shoulders; shoulder
• 枕头箱(枕頭箱) Chinese pillow box (used to keep valuables)
• 牛头犬(牛頭犬) bulldog
• 横头横脑(橫頭橫腦) coarse and arrogant; always in the right
• 一级头(一級頭) first stage (diving)
• 长焦距镜头(長焦距鏡頭) telephoto lens

Also contained in

白头山 、 汕头

Word is mentioned most frequently in

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
• 《頁部》 Yè Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 34
• 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
• 第八十六回 Chapter 86 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 33
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 持头 (持頭) 持頭 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五　兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 2
• 三头 (三頭) 三頭民 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷四　墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms — count: 2
• 头悬 (頭懸) 頭懸越旗 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十七 雜言 Chapter 17: Open Discussion — 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