Kanji1 / 16
頭 kanji
head, counter for large animals
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
トウズト
Kun readings
あたまかしら-がしらかぶり
Words with 頭
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —到頭finally; at last; in the end; ultimately
- —ふ頭pier; wharf; quay; dock
- —阜頭pier; wharf; quay; dock
- —頭註headnote
- —巌頭top of a massive rock
- —火頭pottery lantern (curved conical shape)
- —切頭cutting off the head; shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant
- —蝿頭small characters; tiny handwriting; as small as the head of a fly; small profit
- —橋頭保bridgehead; beachhead
- —こう頭larynx
- —二頭引having two horses draw (e.g. a carriage); two-horse-drawn carriage
- —二頭立having two horses draw (e.g. a carriage); two-horse-drawn carriage
- —喉頭癌laryngeal cancer; cancer of the larynx
- —せん頭pointed end; point; cusp; pointed head
- —華頭窓bell-shaped window (usu. in temples)
- —二頭挽きhaving two horses draw (e.g. a carriage); two-horse-drawn carriage
- —龍頭蛇尾strong beginning and weak ending; anticlimax
- —一頭牽きone-horse (carriage)
- —喉頭ガンlaryngeal cancer; cancer of the larynx
- —白頭ワシbald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)