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Mythic Mandarin

点头 (diǎn tóu): meaning and stroke order

点头 (diǎn tóu) means to nod.

点头

Simplified
点头
Traditional
點頭
Pinyin
diǎn tóu

Stroke order of 点头

点

  • diǎn to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 點

Stroke by stroke

头

  • tóu head; hair style
  • tou suffix for nouns
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 頭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 点头

  1. diǎn tóu Traditional 點頭
    • to nod

Radicals of the characters

点
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 9 strokes · 占 on top, 灬 below
头
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

点头 in our stories

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  • 苏禾笑着点头，眼泪却忍不住流了下来。她这才明白，父亲忘记的是她现在的样子，而不是她。

    Sū Hé xiàozhe diǎntóu yǎnlèi què rěn bú zhù liú le xiàlai tā zhè cái míngbai fùqīn wàngjì de shì tā xiànzài de yàngzi ér bú shì tā

    Su He smiled and nodded, but the tears came anyway. Only then did she understand that what her father had forgotten was how she looked now, not her.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 点头

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).