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石头

shí tou

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 石頭 Measure word 块

石头 (shí tou) means "stone". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 石头 means

1. stone

The characters in 石头

• 石shírock; stone; stone inscription
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top

Example sentences

• 这是什幺石头？
  What kind of stone is this?
• 我建石头房子。
  I build houses out of stone.
• 这个石头很重。
  The stone is heavy.
• 石头、剪子、布。
  Shítou, jiǎnzi, bù.
  Rock, paper, scissors.
• 不要对狗丢石头。
  Don't throw a stone at the dog.
• 石头不会浮起来。
  Stones don't swim.

Words starting with 石头

• 石头记Shí tou JìThe Story of the Stone, another name for A Dream of Red Mansions 红楼梦
• 石头奶shí tou nǎiengorged breasts; rock-hard breasts…
• 石头火锅shí tou huǒ guōclaypot (used in cooking)
• 石头、剪子、布shí tou , jiǎn zi , bùrock-paper-scissors (hand game)

Words containing 石头

• 摸着石头过河mō zhe shí tou guò héto wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom)…
• 鸡蛋碰石头jī dàn pèng shí toulit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom); fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself…
• 剪刀石头布jiǎn dāo shí tou bùrock-paper-scissors (game)
• 搬石头砸自己的脚bān shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎoto move a stone and stub one's toe; to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
• 搬起石头砸自己的脚bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎoto crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock…

Where 石头 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Fashion, Era & Practicality (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shí tou correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.