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头灯tóu dēng
headlight
Definitions
| English > Chinese | ||
| headlight | ||
| 1. 车前灯 | ||
| 2. 桅灯 | ||
| 3. 头灯 | ||
| Components | ||
| 头 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 頭 | ||
| 頭 | tóu | |
| 1. (anatomy) head | ||
| 我 頭 不再 痛 了。 (Wǒ tóu bùzài tòng le.) - My head doesn't hurt any more. | ||
| 2. hair; hairstyle | ||
| 洗頭 (xǐtóu) - to wash one's hair | ||
| 把 頭 剃 光 (bǎ tóu tì guāng) - to shave one's head | ||
| 3. beginning or end | ||
| 從 頭 開始 (cóng tóu kāishǐ) - to start from the beginning | ||
| 4. top; tip; end | ||
| 山頭 - shāntóu - top of a mountain | ||
| 火柴 頭 - huǒchái tóu - tip of a match | ||
| 5. chief; boss; leader (person that leads or directs) | ||
| 工頭 - gōngtóu - foreman | ||
| 你們 的 頭兒r 是 誰？ (Nǐmen de tóur shì shéi?) - Who is your leader? | ||
| 6. remnant; end | ||
| 布頭兒r - bùtóur - oddment | ||
| 煙頭 - yāntóu - cigarette bud | ||
| 7. first; leading | ||
| 頭獎 - tóujiǎng - first prize; biggest prize | ||
| 頭 班 車 - tóu bān chē - first departure | ||
| 8. (used before a classifier or a numeral) first | ||
| 頭 一 遍 - tóu yī biàn - the first time | ||
| 頭 三 天 - tóu sān tiān - the first three days | ||
| 頭 幾個 - tóu jǐge - the first few | ||
| 9. (Hakka, Min Nan, dated in Mainland China) station | ||
| 車頭 - chhia-thâu - train station, MN | ||
| 10. side; aspect | ||
| 11. (Teochew) at the same time; simultaneously | ||
| 头 尋 头 呌 门外 来 (tao5 cim5 tao5 giê3 mung5 ghua7 lai5, ref=late Qing/early Republic, anonymous, 古板一世報全歌) - While searching and shouting he went outdoors., MN-T | ||
| 12. (Cantonese) plug; connector; Short for 插頭, tr=- | ||
| type C 頭tau4-2 - type C tau4-2 - USB Type-C connector, C | ||
| 我 有 兩 頭 豬。 (Wǒ yǒu liǎng tóu zhū.) - I have two pigs. | ||
| 13. (dialectal) | ||
| 14. (Min Bei) | ||
| 15. Suffix that forms nouns. | ||
| 16. Added to a noun. | ||
| 17. 罐頭tou (guàntou) - can; tin | ||
| 18. 石頭tou (shítou) - rock | ||
| 19. Added to a locative word. | ||
| 20. 裡頭tou (lǐtou) - inside | ||
| 21. 前頭tou (qiántou) - front | ||
| 22. Added to a verb to form an abstract noun. | ||
| 23. 念頭tou (niàntou) - thought; idea | ||
| 24. Added to an adjective to form an abstract noun. | ||
| 25. 甜頭tou (tiántou) - sweet taste; benefit | ||
| 灯 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 燈 | ||
| 燈 | dēng, dēn | |
| 1. lamp; light; lantern (for illumination) | ||
| 電燈 - electric light | ||
| 熄燈 - to turn off a light | ||
| 2. lamp (for heating) | ||
| 酒精燈 - alcohol burner | ||
| 3. (HKC, neologism) to jinx; to make incorrect predictions | ||
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Pronunciation
tóu dēng
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