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Mythic Mandarin

龙头 (lóng tóu): meaning and stroke order

龙头 (lóng tóu) means faucet; tap, bicycle handlebar, chief; boss (esp. of a gang).

龙头

Simplified
龙头
Traditional
龍頭
Pinyin
lóng tóu

Stroke order of 龙头

龙

  • Lóng surname Long
  • lóng Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 龍

Stroke by stroke

头

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 龙头

  1. lóng tóu Traditional 龍頭
    • faucet; tap
    • bicycle handlebar
    • chief; boss (esp. of a gang)
    • (referring to a company) leader; front-runner
    • figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat 龍船|龙船[long2 chuan2]

Radicals of the characters

龙
Radical 龙 (Kangxi radical 212) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · built from 𡯃 and 丶
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.

龙头 in our stories

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  • 最后，他们向当地的划船俱乐部借了八条普通的船，自己在船头装上了纸做的龙头。

    zuìhòu tāmen xiàng dāngdì de huáchuán jùlèbù jiè le bā tiáo pǔtōng de chuán zìjǐ zài chuántóu zhuāng shàng le zhǐ zuò de lóngtóu

    In the end they borrowed eight ordinary boats from a local rowing club and fixed paper dragon heads to the bows themselves.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 龙头

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).