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Mythic Mandarin

摇头 (yáo tóu): meaning and stroke order

摇头 (yáo tóu) means to shake one's head.

摇头

Simplified
摇头
Traditional
搖頭
Pinyin
yáo tóu

Stroke order of 摇头

摇

  • Yáo surname Yao
  • yáo to shake; to rock
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 搖

Stroke by stroke

头

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 摇头

  1. yáo tóu Traditional 搖頭
    • to shake one's head

Radicals of the characters

摇
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 13 strokes · 扌 on the left, 䍃 on the right
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.

摇头 in our stories

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  • 庞师傅却摇了摇头，从柜子最里面拿出一只旧碗，碗上歪歪扭扭地排着十几颗铜钉。

    Páng shīfu què yáo le yáotóu cóng guìzi zuì lǐmiàn ná chū yì zhī jiù wǎn wǎn shàng wāiwāi-niǔniǔ de pái zhe shíjǐ kē tóng dīng

    But Master Pang shook his head and took an old bowl from the back of a cupboard; a dozen copper rivets ran crookedly across it.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 摇头

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).