Chinese symbol for “devolved”

多头

duō tóu

Traditional: 多頭

many-headed; many-layered (authority); devolved (as opposed to centralized); pluralistic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for devolved is 多头 (duō tóu), defined as: many-headed; many-layered (authority); devolved (as opposed to centralized); pluralistic; (as classifier) number of animals; long term (finance).

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Characters and stroke order

多 duō

much, many, multi-; more than, over

radical 36 ⼣ · 6 strokes

头 tóu

head; chief, boss; first, top

radical 37 ⼤ · 5 strokes

Traditional forms

頭 tóu

Related words

Other words that share a character with 多头.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
许多 (許多)	xǔ duō	many; a lot of
多少	duō shǎo	number; amount; somewhat
多年	duō nián	many years; for many years
多数 (多數)	duō shù	majority; most
多么 (多麼)	duō me	how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc)
头发 (頭髮)	tóu fa	hair (on the head)
街头 (街頭)	jiē tóu	street
镜头 (鏡頭)	jìng tóu	camera lens; camera shot (in a movie etc)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.