頭

tóu

head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub

How to write 頭, stroke by stroke

tóu: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock
tou: suffix for nouns

Pictophonetic: semantic 頁 (head), phonetic 豆

Made of 豆 + 頁

頭髮tóu fahair (on the head)
石頭shí toustone
頭上tóu shàngoverhead; above
回頭huí tóuto turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
鏡頭jìng tóucamera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene
老頭lǎo tóuold fellow; old man; father; husband
頭腦tóu nǎobrains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss
一頭yī tóuone head; a head full of sth; one end (of a stick); one side; headlong; directly; rapidly; simultaneously
骨頭gǔ toubone; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
舌頭shé toutongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
碼頭mǎ touwharf; dock; quay; pier
攝像頭shè xiàng tóuwebcam; surveillance camera

他的頭撞到了一根柱子。
tā de tóu zhuàng dào le yì gēn zhù zi 。
He bumped his head against a post.
我不需要你口頭上的溫柔。
wǒ bù xū yào nǐ kǒu tóu shàng de wēn róu 。
I don't need your verbal gentleness.
她有著一頭金髮，瘦高的身材。
tā yǒu zhù yì tóu jīn fà ， shòu gāo de shēn cái 。
She has blonde hair and a slim figure.
她憑著努力和生意頭腦成了富翁。
tā píng zhù nǔ lì hé shēng yì tóu nǎo chéng le fù wēng 。
She became rich by virtue of hard work and good business sense.
那如石頭一般堅硬。
nà rú shí tóu yì bān jiān yìng 。
It was hard as rock.