頭

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Counter 3.2 Noun 3.3 Noun 3.4 Kanji 3.4.1 Readings 3.4.2 Compounds 3.5 Derived terms 3.6 See also 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 豆 + semantic 頁

[edit] Han character

頭 (radical 181 頁+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一廿一月金 (MTMBC), four-corner 1118₆, composition ⿰豆頁)

1. head
2. top
3. chief, first
4. boss

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1404, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43490
• Dae Jaweon: page 1921, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4372, character 5
• Unihan data for U+982D

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

頭 (simplified 头, jyutping tau4, Yale tau4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Counter

頭 (hiragana とう, romaji tō)

1. large animals (cows, horses)

[edit] Noun

頭 (hiragana あたま, romaji atama)

1. (anatomy) the forehead or fontanelle part of the skull
2. head (body part)

   頭が痛い

   atama ga itai

   My head hurts

[edit] Noun

頭 (hiragana かしら, romaji kashira)

1. the head as a whole
2. boss, leader

[edit] Kanji

頭 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: とう (tō), ず (zu), と (to)
• Kun: あたま (atama), かしら (kashira), こうべ (koube)

[edit] Compounds

頭蓋骨 頭角 頭脳

頭領 饅頭 (まんじゅう, manjū), “‘manjū, a Japanese confection’”) 頭垢 (ふけ, fuke)

[edit] Derived terms

• 頭が良い
• 頭が悪い
• 頭にくる

[edit] See also

• 首

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

頭 (hangeul 두, revised du, McCune-Reischauer tu, Yale twu)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

頭 (simplified 头, pinyin tóu (tou2), Wade-Giles t'ou²)

[edit] Compounds

• 偏頭痛 (偏头痛)
• 芋頭
• 頭腦
• 奶頭

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

頭 (đầu)