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头 — stroke order

tóu
ㄊㄡˊ
Meaning
head
Strokes
5
Radical
Practise 头 in the full tool →

Watch how to write (tóu) stroke by stroke. 头 has 5 strokes and means “head”. It appears in common words such as 头发 (hair) and 头像 (portrait). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 头

The most common words that use 头 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

头发tóufahair头像tóuxiàngportrait回头huítóuto turn round石头shítoustone头痛tóutòngto have a headache街头jiētóustreet

How 头 is written

Radical
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 大 (high).

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