回头 (huí tóu): meaning and stroke order
回头 (huí tóu) means to turn round; to turn one's head, later; by and by.
回头
- Simplified
- 回头
- Traditional
- 回頭
- Pinyin
- huí tóu
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Stroke order of 回头
回
- huí to circle; to go back
- huí to curve; to return
- huí variant of 迴|回[hui2]
- 6 strokes
- Traditional form: 迴
Stroke by stroke
头
- tóu head; hair style
- tou suffix for nouns
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 頭
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Meaning of 回头
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huí tóu
Traditional 回頭
- to turn round; to turn one's head
- later; by and by
Radicals of the characters
- 回
- Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 6 strokes · built from 囗 and 口
- 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.
回头 in our stories
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第二天，雨停了，顾青走出庙门，回头一看，墙上的画里多了一个小小的白衣姑娘。
dì-èr tiān yǔ tíng le Gù Qīng zǒu chū miào mén huítóu yí kàn qiáng shàng de huà lǐ duō le yí gè xiǎoxiǎo de bái yī gūniang
The next day the rain had stopped. As Gu Qing left the temple he looked back: in the painting on the wall there was now a tiny girl in white.
From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5
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回头看看刚才淋雨的地方，风雨已经过去，晴天也不必太高兴。对一颗平静的心来说，风雨和晴天其实没有什么分别。
huítóu kànkan gāngcái lín yǔ de dìfang fēngyǔ yǐjīng guòqu qíngtiān yě búbì tài gāoxìng duì yì kē píngjìng de xīn láishuō fēngyǔ hé qíngtiān qíshí méiyǒu shénme fēnbié
Looking back at where you were caught in the rain: the storm is over, and there's no need to be too delighted by the sunshine either. To a calm heart, storm and sunshine are really no different.
From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 回头
- The girl in the painting HSK 5
- Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).