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头 — stroke order
Watch how to write 头 (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
- 大
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 大 (high).