1. Home
  2. HSK 8
  3. People and society

巨头

jùtóu

giant; major player; tycoon

A huge red tower looms over tiny green houses
Memory picture

Characters in this word

巨 jù

Strokes
4
Radical
匚 — box
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 巨

头 tóu

Strokes
5
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
Made of
⺀ ice 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 几家科技巨头的投资决定,足以改变整个产业链的方向。 Jǐ jiā kējì jùtóu de tóuzī juédìng, zúyǐ gǎibiàn zhěnggè chǎnyèliàn de fāngxiàng. The investment decisions of several technology giants are enough to change the direction of the whole industrial chain.
  • 这家互联网巨头宣布将在明年招聘一千名新员工。 Zhè jiā hùliánwǎng jùtóu xuānbù jiāng zài míngnián zhāopìn yì qiān míng xīn yuángōng. This internet giant announced that it will hire a thousand new employees next year.
  • 小店很难和零售巨头比价格,只能靠服务留住顾客。 Xiǎodiàn hěn nán hé língshòu jùtóu bǐ jiàgé, zhǐ néng kào fúwù liúzhù gùkè. Small shops can hardly compete on price with retail giants and can only keep customers through service.

Related words

All HSK 8 words →