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斧头 (fǔ tóu): meaning and stroke order

斧头 (fǔ tóu) means ax, hatchet, CL:柄.

斧头

Simplified
斧头
Traditional
斧頭
Pinyin
fǔ tóu

Stroke order of 斧头

斧

  • fǔ hatchet
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

头

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 斧头

  1. fǔ tóu Traditional 斧頭
    • ax
    • hatchet
    • CL:柄[bing3]

Radicals of the characters

斧
Radical 斤 (Kangxi radical 69) · 8 strokes · 父 on top, 斤 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.

斧头 in our stories

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  • 他抓起一把巨大的斧头,朝眼前的黑暗用力一劈,只听一声巨响,鸡蛋裂成了两半。

    tā zhuā qǐ yì bǎ jùdà de fǔtou cháo yǎnqián de hēi'àn yònglì yì pī zhǐ tīng yì shēng jùxiǎng jīdàn liè chéng le liǎng bàn

    He seized a huge axe and swung it hard into the darkness before him; with a tremendous crash the egg split in two.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 东海龙王敖光派一个夜叉出来查看,夜叉见是个小孩,举起斧头就砍。

    Dōng Hǎi Lóngwáng Áo Guāng pài yí gè yèchā chūlai chákàn yèchā jiàn shì gè xiǎohái jǔ qǐ fǔtou jiù kǎn

    Ao Guang, Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, sent a yaksha out to see what was going on; seeing only a child, the yaksha raised its axe and swung.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 很久以前,有一个人在鼻尖上抹了一点薄得像苍蝇翅膀的白灰,请一位木匠用斧头把它砍掉。

    hěn jiǔ yǐqián yǒu yí gè rén zài bíjiān shàng mǒ le yì diǎn báo de xiàng cāngying chìbǎng de bái huī qǐng yí wèi mùjiang yòng fǔtou bǎ tā kǎn diào

    Once there was a man who daubed a speck of white plaster, as thin as a fly's wing, on the tip of his nose and asked a carpenter to chop it off with an axe.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 斧头

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).