丫头
yā tou · HSK 7
girl
👧 丫 = Y-shaped fork + 头 = head: the double Y-buns young girls wore
丫 means a fork or Y-shape, and 头 means head. 丫头 names a girl by the two Y-shaped hair buns once worn by the young — used dismissively for a servant girl, or fondly like calling someone kiddo.
头 — 页 (head/page) + 豆 (bean, phonetic)
The traditional form 頭 combines 頁 (xié), meaning 'head', with 豆 (dòu) as the phonetic component. 頁 itself originally depicted a person with an emphasized head. The simplified form 头 is a modern shorthand that replaces 豆+頁 with a simpler shape while keeping the same meaning of 'head' or 'top'.