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)
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
- —文頭start of a sentence, phrase, etc.
- —頭身head and body; heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long
- —頭語the opening greeting on letters
- —江頭riverbank (esp. the Yangtze River)
- —発頭origin; promotion; originator; promoter
- —頭花flower head; flowerhead
- —頭絡bridle; halter
- —頭首boss; chief; manager
- —斧頭axe-head; ax-head
- —鋭頭acute (of the shape of a leaf); acuminate; pointed
- —鈍頭obtuse (of the shape of a leaf); rounded
- —兀頭bald head; baldness
- —蓬頭unkempt hair
- —後頭back of the head; occiput
- —長頭dolichocephaly
- —短頭brachycephaly; flat head syndrome
- —中頭mesocephaly
- —苗頭deflection (gunnery)
- —断頭beheading; decapitation
- —何頭how many? (large animals)