回头 (回頭) huítóu

1. huítóu verb to turn round; to turn one's head
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '回頭'; Guoyu '回頭')
2. huítóu adverb later
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '回頭'; Guoyu '回頭')
3. huítóu verb Turn Around
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Fo Guang Shan
   Notes: (Glossary of Humanistic Buddhism)

Contained in

• 回头是岸(回頭是岸) the shore is right before you; to repent and start afresh ; Turn Around to Salvation
• 苦海无边，回头是岸(苦海無邊，回頭是岸) The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore . Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. ; the ocean of suffering is boundless; only by turning back can one reach salvation
• 问菩萨为何倒坐 叹众生不肯回头(問菩薩為何倒坐 嘆眾生不肯回頭) One asks why the bodhisattva is sitting backwards; He sighs about beings refusing to change direction.

Also contained in

浪子回头 、 不撞南墙不回头 、 好马不吃回头草 、 浪子回头金不换 、 开弓没有回头箭 、 回头见 、 回头客 、 败子回头

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 8
• Scroll 5 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 5
• Scroll 8 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 4
• Scroll 8 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 4
• Scroll 2 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 3
• Complete Chinese text Divisions and Ceremony for the Diamond Sutra 金剛經科儀 — count: 3
• Scroll 1 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 3
• Scroll 4 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 3
• Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 3
• Scroll 26 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 2

Collocations

• 回头转 (回頭轉) 回頭轉惱作麼 — Quotations from Chan Master Dongshan Liangjia from Ruizhou 瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 8
• 回头一 (回頭一) 回頭一覷 — Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄, Scroll 1 — count: 4
• 肯回头 (肯回頭) 又不知肯回頭轉腦 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 26 — count: 4
• 回头底 (回頭底) 一棒打不回頭底 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 20 — count: 3
• 地回头 (地回頭) 以瞥地回頭稍遲為恨 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 27 — count: 3
• 唤回头 (喚回頭) 頻喚回頭不肯回 — Quotations from Chan Master Ming Jue 明覺禪師語錄, Scroll 6 — count: 3
• 回头只见 (回頭只見) 回頭只見翠山巖 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 2 — count: 3
• 回头看 (回頭看) 回頭看滸眼 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 2 — count: 2
• 回头日 (回頭日) 回頭日又出 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 7 — count: 2
• 急回头 (急回頭) 纖處急回頭 — Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄, Scroll 7 — count: 2