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回头

huí tóu

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 回頭

回头 (huí tóu) means "to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 回头 means

1. to turn round; to turn one's head
2. later; by and by

The characters in 回头

• 回huíto go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer…
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top

Example sentences

• 别回头。
  Don't look back.
• 回头看！
  Look back!
• 汤姆从未回头。
  Tom never looked back.
• 汤姆不敢回头看。
  Tāngmǔ bù gǎn huítóu kàn.
  Tom didn't dare to look back.

Words starting with 回头

• 回头客huí tóu kèrepeat customer
• 回头路huí tóu lùthe road back to where one came from
• 回头率huí tóu lǜfrequency with which people turn their heads to look; degree of attracting attention…
• 回头见huí tóu jiànSee you!; Bye!

Words containing 回头

• 走回头路zǒu huí tóu lùto turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things
• 败子回头bài zǐ huí tóureturn of the prodigal son
• 浪子回头làng zǐ huí tóuthe return of a prodigal son (idiom)
• 好马不吃回头草hǎo mǎ bù chī huí tóu cǎolit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom)…
• 浪子回头金不换làng zǐ huí tóu jīn bù huàna prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
• 不撞南墙不回头bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóuto stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
• 开弓没有回头箭kāi gōng méi yǒu huí tóu jiànlit. once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back (idiom)…
• 苦海无边，回头是岸kǔ hǎi wú biān , huí tóu shì ànThe sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only…

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