| 断头台 | duàn tóu tái | scaffold |
| 方头 | fāng tóu | square headed |
| 方头括号 | fāng tóu kuò hào | square brackets [ ] |
| 方头螺帽 | fāng tóu luó mào | square headed nut |
| 昏头昏脑 | hūn tóu hūn nǎo | confused; dizzy; fainting |
| 晕头 | yūn tóu | dizzy |
| 晕头转向 | yūn tóu zhuàn xiàng | confused and disoriented |
| 月头儿 | yuè tóur | start of the month (colloquial) |
| 有年头 | yǒu nián tou | for donkey's years; for ages |
| 有头有尾 | yǒu tóu yǒu wěi | where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth; to carry things through; I started, so I'll finish. |
| 有头无尾 | yǒu tóu wú wěi | to start but not finish (idiom); to fail to carry things through; lack of sticking power; short attention span |
| 杖头木偶 | zhàng tóu mù ǒu | zhangtou wooden rod puppetry |
| 东一榔头西一棒子 | dōng yī láng tóu xī yī bàng zi | banging away clumsily in all directions with no overall vision |
| 东头村 | Dōng tóu cūn | Tung Tau Tseun village, Hong Kong Island |
| 枕头套 | zhěn tou tào | pillow case |
| 枕头箱 | zhěn tou xiāng | pillow casket (box for valuables kept by the bed) |
| 核弹头 | hé dàn tóu | nuclear reentry vehicle; nuclear warhead |
| 栽跟头 | zāi gēn tou | to suffer a setback |
| 案头 | àn tóu | on one's desk |
| 棕头鸥 | zōng tóu ōu | brown-headed gull (Larus brunnicephalus) |
| 栈桥式码头 | zhàn qiáo shì mǎ tou | jetty; pier |
| 榫头 | sǔn tou | tenon (wooden projection to fit into a mortise) |
| 枪打出头鸟 | qiāng dǎ chū tóu niǎo | the shot hits the bird that pokes its head out (idiom); nonconformity gets punished |
| 杠头 | gàng tóu | argumentative man; chief coffin-bearer (arch.) |
| 槽头 | cáo tóu | feeding trough in stable |
| 桥头乡 | Qiáo tóu xiāng | Qiaotou or Chiaotou township in Kaohsiung county 高雄县, southwest Taiwan |
| 机头 | jī tóu | the front (nose) of a plane etc |
| 机头座 | jī tóu zuò | headstock; turning head of a screw, drill, lathe etc |
| 横头横脑 | héng tóu héng nǎo | coarse and arrogant; always in the right |
| 死到临头 | sǐ dào lín tóu | death is near at hand (idiom) |
| 死对头 | sǐ duì tou | arch-enemy; sworn enemy |
| 杀人不过头点地 | shā rén bù guò tóu diǎn dì | It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously; a fuss about nothing; nothing to write home about |
| 气头上 | qì tóu shàng | in a fit of anger (idiom); in a temper |
| 水龙头 | shuǐ lóng tóu | faucet; tap |
| 汕头 | Shàn tóu | Shantou prefecture level city in Guangdong |
| 汕头地区 | Shàn tóu dì qū | Shantou prefecture, Guangdong |
| 汕头大学 | Shàn tóu Dà xué | Shantou University |
| 汕头市 | Shàn tóu shì | Shantou prefecture level city in Guangdong |
| 没有劲头 | méi yǒu jìn tóu | to have no strength; to feel weak; feeling listless |
| 没有劲头儿 | méi yǒu jìn tóur | erhua variant of 没有劲头, to have no strength; to feel weak; feeling listless |
| 没头没脸 | méi tóu méi liǎn | lit. without head, without face (idiom); fig. frenzily; haphazardly |
| 冲昏头脑 | chōng hūn tóu nǎo | lit. to be muddled in the brain (idiom); fig. excited and unable to act rationally; to go to one's head |
| 沙坡头 | Shā pō tóu | Shapo district of Zhongwei city 中卫市, Ningxia |
| 沙坡头区 | Shā pō tóu qū | Shapo district of Zhongwei city 中卫市, Ningxia |
| 沙头角 | Shā Tóu Jiǎo | Sha Tau Kok (town in Hong Kong) |
| 泊头市 | Bó tóu shì | Botou county level city in Cangzhou 沧州, Hebei |
| 注射针头 | zhù shè zhēn tóu | see 注射针 |
| 洞头 | Dòng tóu | Dontou county in Wenzhou 温州, Zhejiang |
| 洞头县 | Dòng tóu xiàn | Dontou county in Wenzhou 温州, Zhejiang |
| 派头十足 | pài tóu shí zú | exuberant manner |
