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頭
JLPT N3 SL2 16 strokes Frequency: #433

Meanings

Head, Counter For Large Animals

Radicals

頁

Decomposition

⿰豆頁

Etymology

Pictophonetic: head

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 16

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top
2 vertical bottom-to-top
3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
4 horizontal bottom-to-top
5 dot bottom-to-top
6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
7 rising bottom-to-top
8 horizontal right-to-left
9 diagonal right-to-left
10 vertical right-to-left
11 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
12 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
13 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
14 horizontal bottom-to-top
15 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
16 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
トウ tou
ズ zu
ト to
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
かしら kashira
かぶり kaburi
あたま atama

Words Using This Kanji

482 words total
Other (20 words)
初頭 しょとう

beginning (of a century, etc.)

心頭滅却 しんとうめっきゃく

clearing one's mind of all worldly thoughts

人工頭脳 じんこうずのう

mechanical brain

人頭 じんとう

number of people

陣頭指揮 じんとうしき

taking command of a corps in a battle

石頭 いしあたま

obstinate person

接頭 せっとう

prefix

接頭語 せっとうご

prefix

接頭辞 せっとうじ

prefix

先頭打者 せんとうだしゃ

lead-off man

街頭 がいとう

(on the) street

前頭部 ぜんとうぶ

front

双頭 そうとう

double-headed

台頭 たいとう

rise (e.g. of a movement)

断頭台 だんとうだい

(beheading) block

弾頭 だんとう

warhead

地頭 じとう

lord of a manor

乳頭 にゅうとう

(mammary) nipple

柱頭 ちゅうとう

capital (of a column)

会頭 かいとう

society president

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