平头 (píng tóu) — (hairstyle) crew cut, closely cropped hair; (ty…

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

Measure word · 个

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.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

平 (flat) and 头 (top) combine to mean a flat top hairstyle.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The origin is uncertain. One explanation combines 八 (division) and 亏 (exhaled air) to show smooth speech.

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.

豆頁頭

Meaning part形符xíngfú

頁頁yèhead

Sound part声符shēngfú

豆

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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