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Mythic Mandarin

额头 (é tóu): meaning and stroke order

额头 (é tóu) means forehead.

额头

Simplified
额头
Traditional
額頭
Pinyin
é tóu

Stroke order of 额头

额

  • é variant of 額|额[e2]
  • é forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 頟

Stroke by stroke

头

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 额头

  1. é tóu Traditional 額頭
    • forehead

Radicals of the characters

额
Radical 页 (Kangxi radical 181) in its simplified form · 15 strokes · 客 on the left, 页 on the right
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.

额头 in our stories

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  • “跳不过去的呢？”韩青问。“额头撞在石头上，留下一块伤疤，再回到河里，做一条普通的鱼。”

    tiào bú guòqu de ne Hán Qīng wèn étóu zhuàng zài shítou shàng liúxià yí kuài shāngbā zài huídào hé lǐ zuò yì tiáo pǔtōng de yú

    "And the ones that can't?" Han Qing asked. "They strike their foreheads on the rocks, carry away a scar, and go back into the river as ordinary fish."

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 额头

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).