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
- 两头(兩頭) both ends; both parties to a deal
- 川褐头山雀(川褐頭山雀) Sichuan tit (Poecile weigoldicus)
- 地头蛇(地頭蛇) local bully; tyrant; regional mafia boss
- 头悬梁,锥刺股(頭懸梁,錐刺股) with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl
- 烝馒头(烝饅頭) to steam mantou
- 头兜(頭兜) helmet; chain mail hung from head to protect neck
- 栈桥式码头(棧橋式碼頭) jetty; pier
- 生死关头(生死關頭) the critical moment; life and death crisis
- 流落街头(流落街頭) to wander the streets
- 出风头(出風頭) to push oneself forward; to seek fame; to be in the limelight
- 座头鲸(座頭鯨) humpback whale
- 行头(行頭) a person's clothing; outfit; actor's costume
- 头箍儿(頭箍兒) band used by Manchu women to gather up the hair
- 手指头(手指頭) finger
- 牛头梗(牛頭梗) bull terrier
- 大头钉(大頭釘) tack; thumbtack; push pin
- 定焦镜头(定焦鏡頭) prime lens
- 没有劲头儿(沒有勁頭兒) to have no strength
- 油头滑脸(油頭滑臉) oily head and smooth face; crafty and careless
- 挠头(撓頭) tricky; problematic; difficult; to scratch one's head (in puzzlement)
- 老头子(老頭子) an old man
- 鸡头米(雞頭米) Gorgon fruit; Semen euryales
- 榔头(榔頭) hammer; sledgehammer
- 竹字头(竹字頭) name of alternate form of Kangxi radical 118
- 占鳌头(占鰲頭) top rank in the Hanlin examinations
- 拳头(拳頭) fist
- 抢风头(搶風頭) to steal the show; to grab the limelight
- 做头(做頭) to be a leader
- 楦头(楦頭) toe box (of a shoe); shoe last (shoemaker's tool)
- 头条新闻(頭條新聞) headline
- 钻头(鑽頭) drill bit
- 两头三面(兩頭三面) two heads, three faces; complex scheming
- 空头市场(空頭市場) bear market
- 波波头(波波頭) bob (hairstyle)
- 枕头蛋糕(枕頭蛋糕) loaf cake
- 出锋头(出鋒頭) to push oneself forward; to seek fame; to be in the limelight
- 头上(頭上) overhead; above
- 头回(頭回) for the first time; on the previous occasion; last time (something occurred)
- 大凤头燕鸥(大鳳頭燕鷗) greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii)
- 头戴式耳机(頭戴式耳機) headphones
- 头座(頭座) headstock; turning head of a screw, drill, lathe etc
- 狮头石竹(獅頭石竹) grenadine; carnation; clove pink; Dianthus caryophyllus
- 巴头探脑(巴頭探腦) to poke one's head in and pry; to spy; nosy
- 没有劲头(沒有勁頭) to have no strength; to feel weak; feeling listless
- 墙头(牆頭) top of a wall
- 人头熟(人頭熟) to know a lot of people
- 顶头上司(頂頭上司) one's immediate superior
- 榫头(榫頭) tenon (wooden projection to fit into a mortise)
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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
- 《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
- 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
- 余头 (餘頭) 羊致千餘頭 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 2
- 头来 (頭來) 願使人歸取其頭來 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《范睢蔡澤列傳》 Biographies of Fan Sui and Cai Ze — count: 2
- 头郎 (頭郎) 以濯船為黃頭郎 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《佞幸列傳》 Biographies of Flatterers — count: 2