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Mythic Mandarin

念头 (niàn tou): meaning and stroke order

念头 (niàn tou) means thought; idea; intention.

念头

Simplified
念头
Traditional
念頭
Pinyin
niàn tou

Stroke order of 念头

念

  • niàn variant of 念[nian4], to read aloud
  • niàn to read; to study (a subject)
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 唸

Stroke by stroke

头

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 念头

  1. niàn tou Traditional 念頭
    • thought; idea; intention

Radicals of the characters

念
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 8 strokes · 今 on top, 心 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.

念头 in our stories

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  • 她慢慢落到了气球后面，脑子里只有一个念头：放弃吧，反正也没有人在乎。

    tā mànmàn luò dào le qìqiú hòumiàn nǎozi lǐ zhǐ yǒu yí gè niàntou fàngqì ba fǎnzhèng yě méiyǒu rén zàihu

    She slowly fell behind the balloon, with only one thought in her head: give up, nobody cares anyway.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 念头

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).