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

• 叩头(叩頭) to kowtow
• 荐头店(薦頭店) job agency ; employment shop
• 头朝下(頭朝下) head down; upside down
• 硚头(礄頭) Qiaotou
• 黑头白鹮(黑頭白䴉) black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus)
• 山头(山頭) mountain top
• 傻头傻脑(傻頭傻腦) a fool
• 头回(頭回) for the first time; on the previous occasion; last time (something occurred)
• 怪念头(怪念頭) eccentric notion; strange whim
• 折跟头(折跟頭) to do a somersault; to turn head over heels
• 头奖(頭獎) first prize
• 弹头(彈頭) warhead
• 横头横脑(橫頭橫腦) coarse and arrogant; always in the right
• 有头无尾(有頭無尾) to start but not finish
• 灰头鹦鹉(灰頭鸚鵡) grey-headed parakeet (Psittacula finschii)
• 左箭头键(左箭頭鍵) left arrow key (on keyboard)
• 鬼头鬼脑(鬼頭鬼腦) sneaky; furtive
• 狗血淋头(狗血淋頭) to pour dog's blood on; torrent of abuse
• 你个头(你個頭) yeah, right!
• 头里(頭里) in front; in advance of the field
• 冤大头(冤大頭) an person who is cheated and squanders wealth
• 大头目(大頭目) the boss
• 起头(起頭) to start; at first; in the beginning ; to take the lead ; formerly
• 老头(老頭) old man
• 锤头鲨(錘頭鯊) a hammerhead shark
• 猴头菇(猴頭菇) Hericium erinaceus
• 当头(當頭) imminent ; to give an item as collateral ; to be responsible for
• 万头钻动(萬頭鑽動) milling crowds
• 片头(片頭) opening titles (of movie); leader (blank film at the beginning and end of a reel)
• 尖头(尖頭) pointed end; tip; (medicine) oxycephaly
• 宝盖头(寶蓋頭) name of Kangxi radical 40
• 拖车头(拖車頭) trailer truck
• 定焦镜头(定焦鏡頭) prime lens
• 褐头岭雀(褐頭嶺雀) Sillem's mountain finch (Leucosticte sillemi)
• 二级头(二級頭) second stage (diving)
• 舌头(舌頭) tongue
• 虎头鼠尾(虎頭鼠尾) a tiger's head and rat's tail; a noble start but weak finish
• 出人头地(出人頭地) to stand out among one's peers ; to excel
• 拉山头(拉山頭) to start a clique; to form a faction
• 九头鸟(九頭鳥) legendary bird with nine heads ; cunning or sly person
• 冒头(冒頭) to emerge; to crop up; a little more than
• 剪头发(剪頭髮) (to get a) haircut
• 鸡头(雞頭) a chicken head
• 广字头(广字頭) name of Kangxi radical 53
• 改头换面(改頭換面) constantly changing faces; unceasing change
• 头痛欲裂(頭痛欲裂) to have a splitting headache
• 砍头(砍頭) to decapitate; to behead
• 掉头就走(掉頭就走) to turn on one's heels; to walk away abruptly
• 青头鹦鹉(青頭鸚鵡) slaty-headed parakeet (Psittacula himalayana)
• 毛丫头(毛丫頭) a small girl

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鼻头角

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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

• 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
• 击头 (擊頭) 王夫人以手擊頭 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《三王世家》 House of the Three Kings — 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
• 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
• 头仰 (頭仰) 頭仰足肣 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners — count: 2