石头
shí tou 2–5
stone
- Characters
- 2
- 石 · 头
- Syllables
- 2
- shí tou
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 3,169
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 石shí5 strokesHSK 3stone, rock, mineral; Kangxi radical 112
- 头tóu5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 頭head; top; chief, first; boss
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
这是什么石头？
Zhè shì shén me shí tou
What kind of stone is this?
我建石头房子。
Wǒ jiàn shí tou fáng zi
I build houses out of stone.
女人在大石头前。
Nǚ rén zài dà shí tou qián
The woman is in front of a big rock.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 石头. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 头tóuHSK 2
head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock
- 头发tóu faHSK 2
hair (on the head)
- 镜头jìng tóuHSK 4
camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc); scene
- 回头huí tóuHSK 5
to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
- 石油shí yóuHSK 3
oil; petroleum
- 头部tóu bùHSK 7
head
- 街头jiē tóuHSK 6
street
- 码头mǎ tóuHSK 5
dock; pier; wharf
- 头脑tóu nǎoHSK 3
brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss
- 钻石zuàn shíHSK 7
diamond
- 骨头gǔ touHSK 4
bone; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gú tou]
- 念头niàn touHSK 7
thought; idea; intention
- 头疼tóu téngHSK 6
headache
- 点头diǎn tóuHSK 2
to nod
- 丫头yā touHSK 7
girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment)
- 舌头shé touHSK 6
tongue; enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
- 抬头tái tóuHSK 5
to raise one's head; to gain ground; account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc
- 尽头jìn tóuHSK 7
end; extremity; limit
- 摇头yáo tóuHSK 5
to shake one's head
- 开头kāi tóuHSK 6
beginning; to start
- 枕头zhěn touHSK 7
pillow
- 岩石yán shíHSK 7
rock
- 头号tóu hàoHSK 7
first rate; top rank; number one
- 低头dī tóuHSK 6
to bow the head; to yield; to give in