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頭 — 16 strokes / Radical「頁」

道
9Elementary year 2 / 16 strokes / Radical「頁」
On
トウ・ズとう・ず · tō · zu
Kun
あたまatama
Meaning
head

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

頁 (head) + 豆 (tō, the sound) → the head.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onトウとうtō頭部とうぶ年頭ねんとう船頭せんどう
Onズずzu頭脳ずのう頭上ずじょう頭痛ずつう
Onトとto音頭おんど
Kunあたまatama頭あたま頭金あたまきん頭打ちあたまうち
Kunかしらkashira頭あたま頭文字あたまもじ旗頭はたがしら

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 先頭せんとう

    the front

  • 頭上ずじょう

    overhead

More words with this kanji

  • 頭脳ずのう
  • 頭痛ずつう
  • 冒頭ぼうとう
  • 膝頭ひざがしら
  • 頭蓋骨ずがいこつ
  • 咽頭いんとう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

頭(あたま)が いたいです。

I have a headache.

IDIOMS

Idioms with this kanji

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

頭上先頭頭上up先ahead顔face頁page頃time頂summit項clause刀sword冬winter当to hit図drawin…東east
CompoundRadicalReading

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)