Mnemonic
You crack open a beans cookbook to the first page—SPLAT! A massive bean rockets off the page and smacks you square in the head! It leaves a throbbing lump right on top of your head. Now every time you turn a page in that cursed book, you duck to protect your head.
Additional thoughts
Picture the bean as comically oversized, launching like a cannonball from the page straight into your forehead. The head is where beans and pages collide—beans on the left of the kanji, page on the right.Quick recall
A beans cookbook's page launches a bean straight into your head.Details
The keyword for 頭 is head. This kanji refers to the physical head atop the human body, but its meaning extends to encompass ideas of the top, beginning, or leader of something. It can indicate the mind or intellect, as the head is considered the seat of thought. It is also used when counting large animals or as a prefix meaning "chief" or "top-ranking."
- On'yomi
- とう、ず、と
- Kun'yomi
- あたま、かしら、-がしら、かぶり