烏頭

Chinese

		a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (烏頭)		烏	頭
simp. (乌头)		乌	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wūtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄨ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹ tau^4-2
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o͘-thâu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wūtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄨ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wutóu
    • Wade–Giles: wu¹-tʻou²
    • Yale: wū-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: utour
    • Palladius: утоу (utou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu¹ tau^4-2
    • Yale: wū táu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹ tau^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu¹ teo^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː⁵⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: oo-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: o'taau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰau¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²³/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 烏頭

1. (literary) head of a crow
2. (literary) head with black hair; (figurative) juniority; youth
3. (traditional Chinese medicine) aconite (Aconitum), especially the Chinese aconite (Aconitum carmichaelii)
4. grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)
5. seeds of Euryale ferox (foxnut)
6. (archaic) outer joint on the hindleg of a bull or horse