Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tóu
- tou
English
- head
- head
- suffix for nouns
- piece per catty, unit for describing size of some seafood, such as abalone and fish maw
- first; number one; top
- used with positions/locations
- quantifier for families
- the changed tone of 頭 "head (a body part)" (tau4) in certain collocations
- a suffix without lexical meaning, placed after materials, body parts and other things
- head
- top
- hair style
- tip; border
- quantifier for 「親事」 (marriage)
- (used as the last syllable) leader; chief; head; boss
- hairstyle; hair
- chief, first
- the top
- top; head
- electric plug; connector
- area; location
- boss
- end
- start; starting or initiating point/sign
- the changed tone of 頭 (tau4) as a suffix or a last-syllable morpheme in certain collocations
- end; side
- beginning or end
- the aspect to appear or to be shown
- front; head; the first (position, person or part)
- a stub
- certain small-sized edible tubers
- beginning
- remnant
- a unit of length about the height of a human head
- chief
- boss
- side
- aspect
- first
- leading
- classifier for pigs or livestock
- CL:個|个[ge4]
粵語
- 海味體積嘅量詞,即係每斤嘅隻數,數字越大體積越細
- 最先;最初;最前面
- 同位置、地點連用
- 家庭嘅量詞
- 「頭」(頭部)tau4 喺某啲配搭嘅變調
- 冇詞彙意義嘅後綴,加喺物料、身體部份以至其他事物後面
- 人或動物條頸以上嘅部份(量詞:個)
- 前沿;邊緣
- 用喺「親事」
- (用喺詞尾)領導;首領;上司
- 頭髮;髮型
- 上面;頂部
- 插頭
- 地方;地區
- 開端;(引起一樣嘢嘅)起點
- 「頭」(tau4)做後綴或者喺詞尾做語素嘅時候,喺某啲配搭嘅變調
- 一邊;一端
- 表現、凸顯出嚟嘅一面
- 前面;領先嘅位置、人物或部份(量詞:個)
- 某啲細細粒嘅可食用嘅植物塊莖
- 開始嘅時候;首先發生嘅時刻(量詞:個)
- 長度,大約一個頭嘅高度
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 頭
- 回頭wui4 tau4
to turn round; to turn one's head
- 碼頭maa5 tau4
wharf; dock; quay; pier
- 頭腦tau4 nou5
brains
- 開頭hoi1 tau4
beginning
- 龍頭lung4 tau4
faucet; tap
- 地頭dei6 tau4
place
- 口頭hau2 tau4
oral
- 拳頭kyun4 tau4
fist
- 人頭jan4 tau4
person
- 派頭paai1 tau4
manner
- 重頭cung4 tau4
anew
- 上頭soeng6 tau4
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention
- 出頭ceot1 tau4
to get out of a predicament
- 光頭gwong1 tau4
shaven head
- 轉頭zyun3 tau4
to turn one's head
- 頭頭tau4 tau2
head
- 頭頭tau4 tau2
head
- 斧頭fu2 tau2
ax
- 頭緒tau4 seoi5
outline
- 鎖頭so2 tau4
a lock
- 來頭loi4 tau4
cause
- 噱頭coek3 tau4
amusing speech or act
- 渡頭dou6 tau4
ferry crossing point
- 頭髮tau4 faat3
hair (on the head)