从头至尾

從頭至尾

cóngtóu-zhìwěi

idiom #25,120

Meanings

1 from beginning to end
2 from start to finish; throughout

Characters

head; beginning

to; until; reaching

Examples

他从头至尾都没有说过一句谎话。

Tā cóngtóuzhìwěi dōu méiyǒu shuō guò yī jù huǎnghuà.

He never told a single lie from beginning to end.

我把这本书从头至尾读了一遍。

Wǒ bǎ zhè běnshū cóngtóuzhìwěi dú le yī biàn.

I read this book from start to finish.

Tips

memory

头 is head (beginning) and 尾 is tail (end), so the idiom literally means from head to tail — easy to visualize as reading something from cover to cover.

Stroke Order

从 cóng

头 tóu

至 zhì

尾 wěi