头发 (tóu fa): meaning and stroke order

头发 in our stories

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• 快十点的时候，一位头发全白的老人慢慢走过来，把一本书轻轻放进了还书箱。

  kuài shí diǎn de shíhou yí wèi tóufa quán bái de lǎorén mànmàn zǒu guòlai bǎ yì běn shū qīngqīng fàng jìn le huánshūxiāng

  Just before ten, an old man with completely white hair came slowly over and gently put a book into the return box.

  From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

• 他的头发变成了天上的星星，皮肤上的汗毛化作了大地上的草木。

  tā de tóufa biànchéng le tiān shàng de xīngxing pífū shàng de hànmáo huàzuò le dàdì shàng de cǎomù

  His hair became the stars in the sky, and the fine hairs on his skin became the grass and trees of the earth.

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

• 说着，她抓起一块面，甩、拉、折，不到一分钟，一团面就变成了几百根细得像头发一样的面条。

  shuōzhe tā zhuā qǐ yí kuài miàn shuǎi lā zhé búdào yì fēnzhōng yì tuán miàn jiù biànchéng le jǐbǎi gēn xì de xiàng tóufa yíyàng de miàntiáo

  With that she grabbed a lump of dough—swing, stretch, fold—and in under a minute it had become several hundred noodles as fine as hair.

  From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8