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龍頭
简 龙头 · 繁 龍頭Mandarin · pinyin lóng tóu
Meanings
- faucet; tap
- bicycle handlebar
- chief; boss (esp. of a gang)
- (referring to a company) leader; front-runner
- figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat 龍船 lóng chuán
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2–2 · long2 tou2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lung4 tau4
Cantonese word readings for 龍頭. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- leader
- leading product
- leading company; market leader
- tap (device controlling flow of water); faucet; spigot that dispenses liquid
- bicycle handlebar
- beginning (head) of a queue
- leading edge (front end) of a mudslide
- figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat
- (archaic, historical) Alternative name for 狀元／状元 (zhuàngyuan, “zhuangyuan, person ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination”).
- (dialectal Wu) postage stamp
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