# 頭 — Head

Frequency rank 235 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 音 (Sound), less common than 然 (Nature).

- On’yomi: とう、ず、と
- Kun’yomi: あたま、かしら
- Radical: 頁 Leaf (Kangxi 181)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

A geoduck stands upright in a bucket of beans with its siphon flopping over the rim, and the torn ledger page settles flat across the top of it.

In words:

- 頭 あたま — head
- 頭痛 ずつう — headache
- 頭脳 ずのう — head,brains,intellect

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