馒头
mán tou · HSK 6
bun
🍞 Sounds like 'man, dough!' — plain steamed bread
馒 carries the food radical 饣 and 头 means head. A head-sized lump of plain dough, steamed fluffy — the staple bread of northern China.
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'.