牽頭 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 牵头 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. qiāntóu ㄑㄧㄢ ㄊㄡˊ 男 女 to lead (an animal by the head) to take the lead to coordinate (a combined operation) to mediate a go-between (e.g. marriage broker) Character by character 牽(qiān)lead along 頭(tóu)head Other words read qiāntóu qiantou with other tones 前頭 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT