平头 (píng tóu) — (hairstyle) crew cut, closely cropped hair; (typography) flush left, block of non-indented text

Definition

Literally 'flat head': a very short crew cut in everyday use; in typography/design it means flush-left text with no indent.

noun
(hairstyle) crew cutclosely cropped hair(typography) flush leftblock of non-indented text
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Examples

  • 平头
    Tā jiǎn le yí gè píng tóu, kàn qǐ lái tè bié jīng shén.
    He got a crew cut, and it makes him look very sharp.
  • 平头
    Zhè piān wén zhāng de duàn luò dōu shì píng tóu, méi yǒu suō jìn.
    The paragraphs in this article are all flush left, with no indentation.
  • 平头
    Zài pái bǎn zhōng, píng tóu hé suō jìn gè yǒu bù tóng de yòng tú.
    In typography, flush left and indentation have different uses.
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