A misfortune befell him.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
头上
overhead
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
overhead
02
above
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 头上 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 头上 appears in 18 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Why blame us?
I felt a drop of rain on my head.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 头上.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 头上.
Directly before
- 在头上4
- 的头上3
- 他头上2
- 你头上2
- 我头上2
Directly after
- 头上扎1
- 头上飞过1
- 头上戴1
- 头上冒出1
- 头上戴著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 头上
What does 头上 mean in Chinese?
头上 (tóushàng) means overhead.
How do you pronounce 头上?
头上 is pronounced tóushàng.
Is 头上 an HSK word?
头上 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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