head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Tecumseh (t) is inspecting is depiction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He's depicted as having a skull (mnemonic symbol for 头) head (头) with two petal leaves (⺀) in the eye holes, and having a robot (大) body.
suffix for nouns

头 character breakdown

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= : Two petals form a blossom, so let's represent ⺀ by a beautiful blossom.
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.

Characters with 头 as component

to buy / to purchase

= + : Mahatma Gandhi visits the airplane. He sees a neat skull and a nice sickle, and he asks for the price, because he wants to buy them both.
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.
real / true / honest / really / solid / fruit / seed / definitely

= + : Sherlock Holmes welcomes professor Skull just inside the entrance of the space station. Professor Skull has not a complete head but only a skull, and a solid understanding of solid state physics. She really is an honest person and still wears her graduation cap.

Words with 头

to shake one's head
to join / to connect / connection / junction / fitting (plumbing) / connector / terminal (electrical engineering)
connector; joint; coupling / (coll.) to contact; to get in touch with / to have knowledge of; to be familiar with
to extend one's head (out or into) / a probe / detector / search unit
to fall / fig. to suffer a setback
to stick one's head out and look around (idiom)
lit. to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat (idiom) / fig. to cheat / dishonest advertising / wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue
lit. frontline troops / leader / trailblazer / pacesetter
to nod one's head and wag one's tail (idiom) / to be well pleased with oneself / to have a lighthearted air
erhua variant of 探頭探腦|探头探脑[tan4 tou2 tan4 nao3]
to turn on one's heels / to walk away abruptly
lit. to move the shoes on the shoe tree (idiom) / fig. to expose shameful secrets (old)
to move a stone and stub one's toe / to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
to steal the show / to grab the limelight
to clip hair / to have a haircut

Sentences with 头

dà
wáng
 
 
tia̅n
shàng
xià
lái
le
gè
lǎo
tóu
zi