冒頭

See also: 冒头

Chinese

		to cover; to emit; to manifest to cover; to emit; to manifest; to risk; bold; brave	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (冒頭)		冒	頭
simp. (冒头)		冒	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màotóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶ tau⁴
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): mao⁶ tao⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: màotóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: màotóu
    • Wade–Giles: mao⁴-tʻou²
    • Yale: màu-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mawtour
    • Palladius: маотоу (maotou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁶ tau⁴
    • Yale: mouh tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mao⁶ tao⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mău thâu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mau³⁵⁻¹¹ tʰau⁵⁵/

Verb

冒頭

1. to emerge; to crop up
2. (after numbers) to exceed by a little; to be a little over

Synonyms

• (to crop up): 冒尖 (màojiān)
• (to exceed by a little): 出頭／出头 (chūtóu), 冒尖 (màojiān); (Hokkien) 吐頭／吐头, 較吐／较吐

Japanese

Kanji in this term
冒	頭
ぼう Grade: S	とう Grade: 2
kan’on

Etymology

Derivation uncertain. May be from written Chinese 冒頭／冒头 (màotóu), analyzable as 冒 (“to emerge”) + 頭 (“the head; the top; the beginning”).

First cited in Japanese to the 1880s.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぼーとー [bòótóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bo̞ːto̞ː]

Noun

冒(ぼう)頭(とう) • (bōtō) 

1. [from the 1880s] the lead-in, the head, the introductory portion, the beginning of a text
2. [from the early 1900s] the beginning (more generally)

   Synonyms: 始め (hajime), 始まり (hajimari)

Verb

冒(ぼう)頭(とう)する • (bōtō suru) suru (stem 冒(ぼう)頭(とう)し (bōtō shi), past 冒(ぼう)頭(とう)した (bōtō shita))

1. to lead into a text, to make introductory remarks

Conjugation

Conjugation of "冒頭する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	冒頭し	ぼうとうし	bōtō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	冒頭し	ぼうとうし	bōtō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	冒頭する	ぼうとうする	bōtō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	冒頭する	ぼうとうする	bōtō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	冒頭すれ	ぼうとうすれ	bōtō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	冒頭せよ¹ 冒頭しろ²	ぼうとうせよ¹ ぼうとうしろ²	bōtō seyo¹ bōtō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	冒頭される	ぼうとうされる	bōtō sareru
Causative	冒頭させる 冒頭さす	ぼうとうさせる ぼうとうさす	bōtō saseru bōtō sasu
Potential	冒頭できる	ぼうとうできる	bōtō dekiru
Volitional	冒頭しよう	ぼうとうしよう	bōtō shiyō
Negative	冒頭しない	ぼうとうしない	bōtō shinai
Negative continuative	冒頭せず	ぼうとうせず	bōtō sezu
Formal	冒頭します	ぼうとうします	bōtō shimasu
Perfective	冒頭した	ぼうとうした	bōtō shita
Conjunctive	冒頭して	ぼうとうして	bōtō shite
Hypothetical conditional	冒頭すれば	ぼうとうすれば	bōtō sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Korean

Hanja in this term
冒	頭

Noun

冒頭 • (modu) (hangeul 모두)

1. Hanja form^? of 모두 (“beginning of a talk or story”).