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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

到头

dàotóu

to the end (of)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to the end (of)

02

at the end of

03

in the end

04

to come to an end

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 到头 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 到头 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

麻烦你在四时叫我起床。我一定要乘到头班火车。má fán nǐ zài sì shí jiào wǒ qǐ chuáng。 wǒ yí dìng yào chéng dào tóu bān huǒ chē。

Call me at four; I must take the first train.

学过劲儿到头都要炸了!xué guò jìn er dào tóu dōu yào zhà le!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 到头.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 到头.

Directly before

  • 乘到头1
  • 劲儿到头1

Directly after

  • 到头班1
  • 到头都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 到头

What does 到头 mean in Chinese?

到头 (dàotóu) means to the end (of).

How do you pronounce 到头?

到头 is pronounced dàotóu.

Is 到头 an HSK word?

到头 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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