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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

头像

tóuxiàng

portrait; bust

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

portrait; bust

02

(computing) profile picture; avatar

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 头像 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 头像 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我喜欢你的头像。wǒ xǐ huān nǐ de tóu xiàng。

I like your profile picture.

我的头像漂亮吗?wǒ de tóu xiàng piào liàng ma?

Is my profile picture beautiful?

你最近更改过你的头像吗?nǐ zuì jìn gēng gǎi guò nǐ de tóu xiàng ma?

Have you changed your profile picture recently?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 头像.

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

Directly before

  • 的头像4

Directly after

  • 头像漂亮1
  • 头像吗1
  • 头像也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 头像

What does 头像 mean in Chinese?

头像 (tóuxiàng) means portrait; bust.

How do you pronounce 头像?

头像 is pronounced tóuxiàng.

Is 头像 an HSK word?

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

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