掉头
diào​tóu HSK7

turn around

掉头 (掉頭) diào​tóu
turn around verb
to change direction or make a U-turn, often referring to a vehicle

这条街太窄，汽车很难掉头。

zhè tiáo jiē tài zhǎi, qì​chē hěn nán diào​tóu.

This street is too narrow for cars to make a U-turn.

turn head verb
to turn one's head around to look at something

他听到身后有响声，便掉头去看。

tā tīng​dào shēn​hòu yǒu xiǎng​shēng, biàn diào​tóu qù kàn.

Hearing a noise behind him, he turned his head to look.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
7.63 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
3.96 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)