apex / crown of the head / top / roof / most / to carry on the head / to push to the top / to go against / to replace / to substitute / to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc) / (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile / classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is taking care of the receipts (页) inside of the engine ((e)ng3). She has a big nail (丁) on her head (顶) and every time there is a new receipt, she just pierces it onto the nail.

顶 character breakdown

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

= + : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
head
page / leaf

= + : mnemonic symbol: a sheet of paper.

= + : It's just too hot in Greece for the crab, so it wants to return to the ocean. Inside of the elevator's bathroom, Maud Younger helps it to do so. The plan is to just flush it down the toilet. The toilet is operated with the help of wind power, but there's no wind today. Maud Younger makes short work, grabs to sheets of paper and waves them towards the wind wheel until it turns really quickly. Finally the crab can return home.

Characters with 顶 as component

顶 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 顶

peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)
top floor / the top of a building
to withstand / to stand up to
to talk back / to answer back
peak / summit / fig. high point / masterpiece
ceiling / awning (under ceiling)
to take over sb else's job / to substitute for
top bar / crown bar
bucking bar (metal bar fixing the tail of a rivet as it is driven)
to push with the forehead / to lock horns / to be at loggerheads
to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business
item / event / project
see 丁克[ding1 ke4]
erhua variant of 頂尖|顶尖[ding3 jian1]
to replace sb on a workshift / to substitute for
cap badge (official sign of rank in Qing dynasty)
to prostrate oneself / to kneel and bow the head (in submission, supplication, worship etc)
to resist / to obstruct / to bear responsibility for
(typesetting) to not indent / to set the text flush with the left (or top) margin

Sentences with 顶

顶 currently does not appear in any sentence.