Chinese symbol for “headache”
头疼
tóu téng
Traditional: 頭疼
headache
The closest CC-CEDICT match for headache is 头疼 (tóu téng), defined as: headache.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “headache”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 头疼.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 石头 (石頭) | shí tou | stone; 块 (kuài) |
| 码头 (碼頭) | mǎ tou | wharf; dock; quay; pier |
| 回头 (回頭) | huí tóu | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by |
| 疼痛 | téng tòng | pain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt |
| 心疼 | xīn téng | to love dearly; to feel sorry for sb |
See also: Japanese symbol for “headache”.
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.