Zi:头
头(F頭) [tóu] head; first; 头发 tóufa hair [tou] 石头 stone
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹tóu* 头[頭] {A} n. ①head ②hair (style) ③top/end of sth. ④chief; head ⑤remnant; end; remains ⑥aspect; side ⑦bounds ◆pref. leading; first; previous ‖ Tā ∼ liǎng nián zhù zài Shànghǎi. 他∼两年住在上海。 He lived in Shanghai the first two years. ◆m. (for livestock/garlic) ‖ sì ∼ niú 四∼牛 four cows ‖ sān ∼ suàn 三∼蒜 three bulbs of garlic ◆adv. 〈environment:〉 coll. before; prior to ‖ Tā ∼ sì diǎnzhōng zǒu. 他∼四点钟走。 He's leaving before four o'clock. ‖ Tā ∼ shí nián jiù sǐ le. 她∼十年就死了。 She died 10 years ago. ◆cons. NUM1 ∼ NUM2 between NUM1 and NUM2 ‖ sān ∼ wǔqiān 三∼五千 between three and five thousand
►tou 头[頭] suf. ①nominal localizer ‖ hòu∼ 后∼ back; rear ②verbal nominalizer paired with ¹yǒu ‖ Zhèr yǒu shénme kàn∼? 这儿有什么看∼? What's worth seeing here?
The simple-form character 头 tóu ‘head’ (5 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 頭 (16 strokes), dropping the left-side full-form component 豆, and replacing the right-side full-form component 頁 with 页, which was later abbrev. to simply 头.
Note: Intermediary simplified forms: 頭⿰豆頁 → ⿰豆页 → ⿰豆头 → 头; the first 2 strokes of 头 corresp. to the first 2 strokes of 页 (cf. 丷 in 𦣻/首 shǒu ‘head’); and the last 3 strokes (like 大) of 头 corresp. to the last 3 strokes of 页.
Note: As a component 头 occurs in several unrelated (to 頭) simplified forms, replacing full-form components with a shape like 貝 at the bottom; although 貝 is not a trad. component of 頁, the last 7 strokes of 頁 are the same; the old abbrev. form 実 is of interest for the origin of the modern simple form 实/實.
Compare: 买/買(𧵽); 实/實, formerly also wr. 実; 卖/賣(𧷵); 卖/賣(𧶠).
The Shuōwén Seal form of 头/頭 tóu ‘head’ combines 頁(𩑋) xié ‘head’, and 豆(𤽋) dòu ‘vessel/bean’ (phonosemantic).
Compare: 侸 shù ‘stand up straight’; 尌 shù ‘stand up straight’; 竖/豎 shù ‘stand sth. up; vertical’; 树/樹 shù ‘tree’.
Compare: 豆 dòu ‘(food) bean’ (大豆, 小豆), formerly wr. 尗 shū ‘bean’, 菽 (cf. 尗).
Compare: 豆 dòu ‘covered ritual/food vessel’; 豊(𧯽) lǐ ‘sacrificial vessel’; 登(𧰍) dēng ‘climb’.
Compare: 𦣻, 首(𩠐) shǒu ‘head’; 页/頁(𩑋) xié ‘head’ (later used for 葉 yè, cf. 叶).
Compare: 头/頭 tóu ← MC /du/; 𦣻, 首(𩠐) shǒu ← MC /ɕjuʔ/; cf. 道.
Compare: 页/頁(𩑋) xié ← MC /ɣit/; 䭬 qǐ ← MC /khiʔ/ (SBGY); cf. 页.
Compare: 斗(𤣫) dǒu; 斗/鬥(鬥) dòu.
►references: Henshall:186; Karlgren:AD1015; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.526.2; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:019.0.09; EDOC:0
►components: 大丶
►Cantonese: tauh\
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