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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
上头
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head…
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention
02
(old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 上头 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 上头 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 上头.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 上头.
Directly before
- 怒气上头1
- 那上头1
- 有点上头1
- 旋律上头1
Directly after
- 上头了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 上头
What does 上头 mean in Chinese?
上头 (shàngtóu) means (of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head….
How do you pronounce 上头?
上头 is pronounced shàngtóu. It also has the reading shàngtou.
Is 上头 an HSK word?
上头 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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