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舌头

shé tou

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 舌頭 Measure word 个

舌头 (shé tou) means "tongue". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 舌头 means

1. tongue
2. enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information

The characters in 舌头

• 舌shétongue
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top

Example sentences

• 我咬了我的舌头。
  I bit my tongue.
• 女人的舌头是她的剑。
  Nǚrén de shétou shì tā de jiàn.
  A woman's tongue is her sword.
• 琳达把舌头伸了出来。
  Lín dá bǎ shétou shēn le chūlái.
  Linda stuck her tongue out.
• 女人的力量在她的舌头。
  Nǚrén de lìliang zài tā de shétou.
  A woman's strength is in her tongue.
• 靠！我咬到自己舌头了。
  Ouch! I bit my tongue!
• 舌头和上颚都是味觉器官。
  Shétou hé shàng'è dōu shì wèijué qìguān.
  The tongue and the palate are the taste organs.

Words containing 舌头

• 大舌头dà shé tou(colloquial) lisp; one who lisps
• 猫舌头māo shé tóu(fig.) (coll.) sensitivity to hot food or drink; person who has such a sensitivity
• 满嘴跑舌头mǎn zuǐ pǎo shé touto talk without thinking; to drivel
• 烂舌头làn shé tóuto gossip; to blab; a blab-mouth
• 吐舌头tǔ shé touto stick out one's tongue
• 嚼舌头jiáo shé tóuto gossip; to argue unnecessarily

Where 舌头 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Body Parts & Medical (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 shé tou correctly.
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