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
- —頭数number of (large) animals
- —蛇頭snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants
- —穿頭trepanation; trephination; trepanning; trephining
- —白頭head with grey hair (gray); grey head
- —截頭cutting off the head; shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant
- —回頭changing course (of a ship or aircraft); turning
- —多頭many-headed; hydra-headed; large-scale (e.g. breeding)
- —蠅頭small characters; tiny handwriting; as small as the head of a fly; small profit
- —頭顱head; skull
- —唇頭tip of the lips
- —源頭river source; source of a river; cause; root
- —前頭front of the head
- —寡頭small number of people
- —檣頭masthead (top of a mast)
- —小頭small head
- —頭位cephalic presentation (of the fetus); head posture; head position
- —符頭notehead
- —床頭bedside
- —開頭craniotomy
- —咬頭cusp (of a tooth)