"Forehead" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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额头 é tóu forehead
脑门 nǎo mén forehead
眉宇 méi yǔ (literary) forehead / countenance / appearance
前额 qián é forehead
额角 é jiǎo forehead / temples
脑门子 nǎo mén zi forehead (dialect)
额 é forehead / horizontal tablet or inscribed board / specified number or amount
颅 lú forehead / skull
颡 sǎng (literary) forehead
天庭 tiān tíng middle of the forehead / imperial court / heaven
磕头 kē tóu to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
叩头 kòu tóu to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头[ke1 tou2]
眉间 méi jiān the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows / glabella
五刑 wǔ xíng imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3]
墨 mò ink stick / China ink / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead
黥 qíng to tattoo criminals on the face or forehead
颋 tǐng narrow forehead
頞 è junction of nose and forehead
頲 tǐng narrow forehead
墨刑 mò xíng corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
方脸突额 fāng liǎn tū é to have a square face and a protruding forehead (idiom)
眉心轮 méi xīn lún ājñā / or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查克拉, residing in the forehead / also written 眉間輪|眉间轮[mei2 jian1 lun2]
眉间轮 méi jiān lún ājñā / or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查克拉, residing in the forehead
稽颡 jī sǎng kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)
花黄 huā huáng yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times)
顶牛儿 dǐng niú r to push with the forehead / to lock horns / to be at loggerheads
膜拜 mó bài to kneel and bow with joined hands at forehead level / to worship
稽颡 qǐ sǎng to kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)
印堂 yìn táng the part of the forehead between the eyebrows / yintang, acupuncture point at the midpoint between the medial ends of the eyebrows
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