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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

头巾

tóujīn

cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times

02

headscarf (typically worn by women)

03

kerchief

04

turban

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 头巾 actually appears in real sentences.

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

她在斋戒月期间开始佩戴伊斯兰头巾。tā zài zhāi jiè yuè qī jiān kāi shǐ pèi dài yī sī lán tóu jīn。

She started wearing an Islamic headscarf during Ramadan.

把你的头巾戴上。bǎ nǐ de tóu jīn dài shàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 头巾.

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

Directly before

  • 的头巾1
  • 伊斯兰头巾1

Directly after

  • 头巾戴上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 头巾

What does 头巾 mean in Chinese?

头巾 (tóujīn) means cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times.

How do you pronounce 头巾?

头巾 is pronounced tóujīn.

Is 头巾 an HSK word?

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

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