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头灯 (tóu dēng): meaning and stroke order

头灯 (tóu dēng) means headlight (of a vehicle), headlamp; head torch.

头灯

Simplified
头灯
Traditional
頭燈
Pinyin
tóu dēng

Stroke order of 头灯

头

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

Stroke by stroke

灯

  • dēng lamp; light
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 燈

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 头灯

  1. tóu dēng Traditional 頭燈
    • headlight (of a vehicle)
    • headlamp; head torch

Radicals of the characters

头
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
灯
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 6 strokes · 火 on the left, 丁 on the right

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.

头灯 in our stories

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  • 凌晨两点，他们从最后一个营地出发。头灯的光在黑暗中连成一条线，每走一步，都要大口喘三口气。

    língchén liǎng diǎn tāmen cóng zuìhòu yí gè yíngdì chūfā tóudēng de guāng zài hēi'àn zhōng lián chéng yì tiáo xiàn měi zǒu yí bù dōu yào dàkǒu chuǎn sān kǒu qì

    At two in the morning they set out from the last camp. The headlamps formed a line of light in the darkness, and every step took three great gasps of breath.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 头灯

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).