| 调头 | diào tóu | variant of 掉头, to turn through 180 degrees; a U-turn; to turn around |
| 读头 | dú tóu | reading head (e.g. in tape deck) |
| 变焦距镜头 | biàn jiāo jù jìng tóu | zoom lens |
| 猫头鹰 | māo tóu yīng | owl |
| 贼头贼脑 | zéi tóu zéi nǎo | lit. to behave like a thief; furtive; underhand |
| 贱骨头 | jiàn gǔ tou | miserable wretch; contemptible individual |
| 赚头 | zhuàn tou | profit (colloquial) |
| 赶浪头 | gǎn làng tou | to follow the trend |
车到山前必有路，
船到桥头自然直 | chē dào shān qián bì yǒu lù ,
chuán dào qiáo tóu zì rán zhí | When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through and when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current (common saying); fig. Everything will turn out for the best.; Let's worry about it when it happens.; It will be all right on the night. |
| 车头相 | chē tóu xiàng | photo attached to the front of a hearse in a funeral procession |
| 转头 | zhuǎn tóu | to turn one's head; to change direction; U-turn; volte face; to repent |
| 转头 | zhuàn tóu | nutation (plants turning to face the sun) |
| 辔头 | pèi tóu | bridle |
| 迎头儿 | yíng tóur | erhua variant of 迎头, to meet head-on; face-to-face; directly |
| 迎头打击 | yíng tóu dǎ jī | to hit head on |
| 迎头赶上 | yíng tóu gǎn shàng | to try hard to catch up |
| 过头话 | guò tóu huà | exaggeration |
| 避避风头 | bì bì fēng tóu | to lie low until the fuss dies down |
| 边头 | biān tóu | the end; border; just before the end |
| 重头戏 | zhòng tóu xì | opera rich in singing and dancing; the most important part or highlight (of a project, plan etc) |
| 钉头 | dīng tóu | head of nail |
| 钩头篙 | gōu tóu gāo | boathook |
| 银样镴枪头 | yín yàng là qiāng tóu | silvery spear point actually made of pewter (idiom); fig. worthless despite an attractive exterior |
| 铜箭头 | tóng jiàn tóu | bronze arrowhead |
| 锤头鲨 | chuí tóu shā | a hammerhead shark |
| 镰刀斧头 | lián dāo fǔ tóu | the hammer and sickle (flag of USSR, symbolizing rural and proletarian labor) |
| 钻头卡盘 | zuān tóu qiǎ pán | drill chuck |
| 钻头夹盘 | zuān tóu jiá pán | drill chuck |
| 门头沟 | Mén tóu gōu | Mentougou district of Beijing municipality |
| 门头沟区 | Mén tóu gōu qū | Mentougou district of Beijing |
| 阑头 | lán tóu | lintel; architrave |
| 隧道尽头的光亮 | suì dào jìn tóu de guāng liàng | the light at the end of the tunnel |
| 鸡蛋里挑骨头 | jī dàn li tiāo gǔ tou | to look for bones in an egg; to find fault; to nitpick (idiom) |
| 鸡头米 | jī tóu mǐ | Gorgon fruit; Semen euryales (botany); see also 芡实 |
| 云头 | yún tóu | cloud |
| 零头 | líng tóu | odd; scrap; remainder |
| 青字头 | qīng zì tóu | "top of 青 character" component in Chinese characters |
| 韵头 | yùn tóu | leading vowel of diphthong |
| 响头 | xiǎng tóu | to bump one's head; to kowtow with head-banging on the ground |
| 顶头上司 | dǐng tóu shàng si | one's immediate superior |
| 项上人头 | xiàng shàng rén tóu | head; neck (as in "to save one's neck", i.e. one's life) |
| 领头羊 | lǐng tóu yáng | bellwether |
| 头一回 | tóu yī huí | the first time; for the first time |
| 头上 | tóu shàng | overhead; above |
| 头份 | Tóu fèn | Toufen town in Miaoli county 苗栗县, northwest Taiwan |
| 头份镇 | Tóu fèn zhèn | Toufen town in Miaoli county 苗栗县, northwest Taiwan |
| 头伏 | tóu fú | first of three 10 day periods of hot season |
| 头儿 | tóur | leader |
| 头儿脑儿 | tóur nǎor | leading figure; bigwig; lion; nabob; pooh-bah |
| 头兜 | tóu dōu | helmet; chain mail hung from head to protect neck |
