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

• 猎头人(獵頭人) head-hunter; headhunter; recruiter
• 呆脑呆头(呆腦呆頭) slow witted
• 账头(賬頭) the beginning of a ledger
• 棕背黑头鸫(棕背黑頭鶇) Kessler's thrush (Turdus kessleri)
• 皮包骨头(皮包骨頭) to be all skin and bones
• 头脑发胀(頭腦發脹) swelling of the head (physical condition); swellheaded; conceited
• 砍头不过风吹帽(砍頭不過風吹帽) to regard decapitation as no more important than the wind blowing off your hat
• 狼头(狼頭) hammer; sledgehammer
• 一头雾水(一頭霧水) to be confused; to be baffled
• 头昏眼晕(頭昏眼暈) head spinning and blurred vision; giddy; in a faint
• 头会箕敛(頭會箕斂) to tax harshly
• 点头哈腰(點頭哈腰) to nod one's head and bow; bowing and scraping; unctuous fawning
• 拳头产品(拳頭產品) competitive product; superior goods; with real punch
• 锄头(鋤頭) hoe
• 接头(接頭) to join; to connect; connection; junction; fitting (plumbing); connector; terminal (electrical engineering)
• 头胸部(頭胸部) cephalothorax
• 后头(後頭) the back; the rear side ; later; the future
• 雪茄头(雪茄頭) cigarette lighter plug (inserted in a car's cigarette lighter socket to draw power)
• 石头(石頭) rock; stone
• 头文字(頭文字) initial; first letter of word
• 空头(空頭) phony; unrealistic; unpractical ; refined rice ; short trading
• 探头(探頭) to extend one's head ; a probe; a detector; a search unit
• 挑头儿(挑頭兒) to take the lead
• 牛头犬(牛頭犬) bulldog
• 黑头金翅雀(黑頭金翅雀) black-headed greenfinch (Chloris ambigua)
• 斩头(斬頭) to behead
• 栗头蜂虎(栗頭蜂虎) chestnut-headed bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti)
• 抢风头(搶風頭) to steal the show; to grab the limelight
• 吃人血馒头(吃人血饅頭) to take advantage of others' misfortune
• 褐头鹀(褐頭鵐) red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps)
• 玉头姬鹟(玉頭姬鶲) sapphire flycatcher (Ficedula sapphira)
• 左箭头(左箭頭) left-pointing arrow
• 凤头䴙䴘(鳳頭鷿鷈) great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
• 秃头(禿頭) baldness
• 过头(過頭) to overdo it; to overstep the limit; excessively; above one's head; overhead
• 虎字头(虎字頭) name of Kangxi radical 141
• 头大(頭大) to have a big head; (fig.) to get a headache; one's head is swimming
• 评头品足(評頭品足) to make idle remarks about a woman's appearance
• 心头怒火(心頭怒火) fury
• 茫无头绪(茫無頭緒) clueless
• 灰头土脸(灰頭土臉) head and face filthy with grime; covered in dirt; dejected and depressed

Also contained in

摩头罗 、 俱物头 、 头城镇 、 白头山 、 豹子头 、 俱物头华 、 座头市 、 摄头 、 摄像头 、 汕头

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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
• 《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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 持头 (持頭) 持頭 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五　兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 2
• 头栎 (頭櫟) 梟故塞王欣頭櫟陽市 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 2