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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

头绪

tóuxù

outline

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

outline

02

main threads

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 头绪 actually appears in real sentences.

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

没头绪。méi tóu xù。

I'm getting nowhere.

你有什么头绪吗?nǐ yǒu shén me tóu xù ma?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 头绪.

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

Directly before

  • 没头绪1
  • 什么头绪1

Directly after

  • 头绪吗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 头绪

What does 头绪 mean in Chinese?

头绪 (tóuxù) means outline.

How do you pronounce 头绪?

头绪 is pronounced tóuxù.

Is 头绪 an HSK word?

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

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