打頭

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (打頭)		打	頭
simp. (打头)		打	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² tau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎtóu
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-tʻou²
    • Yale: dǎ-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daatour
    • Palladius: датоу (datou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (打頭兒／打头儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎtóur
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄊㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎtóur
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-tʻou²-ʼrh
    • Yale: dǎ-tóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daatourl
    • Palladius: датоур (datour)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² tau⁴
    • Yale: dá tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹/

Verb

打頭

1. to take the lead; to be at the beginning; to be situated at the front
   • 1950, 林濤 (Lin Tao), 定型化新文字 [Dingshinghua Sin Wenz], 2nd edition, 生活·讀書·新知三聯書店, page 11:

     w跟u讀音完全一樣，w是頭母，用於音節的開頭[…]u用於音節的中間或末尾，它從不打頭[…] [MSC, trad.]
     w跟u读音完全一样，w是头母，用于音节的开头[…]u用于音节的中间或末尾，它从不打头[…] [MSC, simp.]

     w gēn u dúyīn wánquán yīyàng, w shì tóumǔ, yòng yú yīnjié de kāitóu […] u yòng yú yīnjié de zhōngjiān huò mòwěi, tā cóng bù dǎtóu […] [Pinyin]

     w is pronounced that same as u. w is an initial consonant placed at the beginning of a syllable […] u is placed at the middle or end of a syllable and never occurs at the beginning.

2. (electronics) to tap

Adverb

打頭

1. (dialectal) from the start; from the beginning

Synonyms

• 從頭／从头 (cóngtóu)
• (Hokkien) 自頭／自头