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石头 (shí tou) — Chinese word meaning

HSK 5

石头 (shí tou) is a Chinese word: stone. This page shows its pinyin, translation, example sentences, character breakdown, decomposition, and HSK level.

Meaning of 石头

名 míng noun

stone

这块石头很重。

zhè kuài shí tou hěn zhòng

This stone is very heavy.

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Word breakdown

石 shí — stone, rock (main semantic component)

头 tóu / tou — nominal suffix (makes the word more colloquial)

Contextual pronunciation: tou

Structure & writing
1 石 shí — rock; stone (hard mineral matter forming the earth's crust)
石 is a component in 30 characters
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石 is an atomic character — it does not decompose further.

Stroke order

2 头 tóu / tou — head (of a person or animal)
Xpinyin
头 is a component in 2 characters

consists of

2.2 大 dà — large; great (in volume, area, quantity, force, intensity, etc.; opposite of 小)
Xpinyin
大 is a component in 34 characters
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Stroke order