HSK 6 · Body

拳头 quántou “fist” in Chinese

Traditional 拳頭

What 拳头 means

  1. fist
  2. (of a product, service, project etc) flagship
  3. key
  4. core

How to say 拳头

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale拳quán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own头touneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

拳头 in a sentence

  1. 她用拳头拍了桌子。

    Tā yòng quántou pāi le zhuōzi.

    She banged the table with her fist.

    Sentence #894283 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 汤姆握紧了他的拳头。

    Tāngmǔ wòjǐn le tā de quántou.

    Tom clenched his fist.

    Sentence #8791843 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 拳头 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 拳 (quán) with each of its parts in a different colour
拳quánfist
  • 龹part of the characterSound part
  • 手hand · shǒuMeaning part
The character 头 (tóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
头tousuffix for nouns
  • ⺀ice form of 冫 · bīng
  • 大big · dàMeaning part

Memory aidSimplified from 頭, where 页 meant “head” and 豆 (dòu) gave the sound.

How to write 拳头

拳 10 strokes · 头 5 strokes

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拳头 (quántou) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 拳头 (quántou). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 拳头

Words with 拳

太极拳tàijíquán · tai chi (taijiquan)

Words with 头

头tóu · head头发tóufa · hair on the head馒头mántou · steamed roll骨头gǔtou · bone石头shítou · stone木头mùtou · wood舌头shétou · tongue口头kǒutóu · oral镜头jìngtóu · camera shot码头mǎtou · dock

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FAQs

拳头 (quántou) means “fist” or “(of a product, service, project etc) flagship”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it quántou: quán with a 2nd tone, then tou with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 拳头 is written 拳頭. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type quantou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拳头 from the suggestions. Typing quantou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拳头 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.