KANAE
Character · The body

頭

あたま atamaこうべ kōbeせんどう sendōけいとう keitō

head

Composition

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Origin

頁, the head, gives the sense; 豆, the stemmed ritual vessel, supplies the sound.

In the thoughts

  1. 船頭sendōboatmen
  2. 鶏頭keitōcockscombs
  3. 竜頭ryūtōdragon's head
  4. 地頭jitōlocal lord

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 030 The riper the rice ear, the lower it bows its head.
  2. 142 Hiding the head but not the rear.
  3. 149 Too many boatmen pull the boat up the mountain.
  4. 231 Cockscombs — there must be fourteen, maybe fifteen.
  5. 246 Dragon's head, snake's tail.
  6. 266 Against a crying child and a local lord, no one wins.
  7. 278 First chase the flies above your own head.

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