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户头 (hù tóu) — bank account; account (financial or service account); householder; listed household member

Definition

户头 (hùtou) means a financial or service account — the everyday spoken word for a bank account. The 'household head' sense is rare; in household-registration contexts use 户主.

noun
bank accountaccount (financial or service account)householderlisted household member
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 户头。
    Wǒ zài yín háng kāi le yí gè gōng zī hù tóu.
    I opened a payroll account at the bank.
  • 户头。
    Zhè ge hù tóu de yú é yǐ jīng bù duō le.
    The balance of this account is already low.
  • ，户头。
    Àn zhèng cè, měi gè hù tóu zhǐ néng dēng jì yí tào zhù fáng.
    According to policy, each household head can register only one residential property.

Origin

Derived word
构词法gòucífǎ
后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

户hùhousehold
头tóu

The word comes from 户 'household' plus 头, referring to a financial account.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 戶; 户 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 戶 is a picture of half of a gate. The simplified 户 is a later shorthand, so its shape should not be read as the original parts.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 頭; 头 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
頁頁yèhead
Sound part声符shēngfú
豆
豆dòu頭tóu
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 頭 shows 頁, meaning head, beside 豆 as a sound component; the simplified 头 is a later shorthand.

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Appears in
Finance & Banking

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