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摇头
yáo​tóu HSK5

to shake one's head

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
摇头 搖頭 yáo//tóu
to shake one's head verb + noun
To move one's head from side to side, usually to express a negative response such as disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
4.44 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
23.1 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 5

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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