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头发

tóu fa

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 頭髮

头发 (tóu fa) means "hair (on the head)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 头发 means

1. hair (on the head)

The characters in 头发

• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top
• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue

Example sentences

• 我的头发很长
  My hair is very long.
• 她在梳头发。
  She is brushing her hair.
• 他有长头发。
  He has long hair.
• 我没洗头发。
  I haven't washed my hair.
• 长头发落伍了。
  Cháng tóufa luòwǔ le.
  Long hair is out of fashion.
• 汤姆头发蓬乱。
  Tāngmǔ tóu fā péngluàn.
  Tom's hair was disheveled.

Words starting with 头发

• 头发胡子一把抓tóu fa hú zi yī bǎ zhuālit. hair and beard all in one stroke; fig. to handle different things by the same…

Words containing 头发

• 剪头发jiǎn tóu fa(to get a) haircut
• 烫头发tàng tóu faperm; to perm hair

Where 头发 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Body Parts & Physical Description (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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