mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

口 character breakdown

The character 口 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 口 as component

see 咱[zan2]
I or me / we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)

= + : In the anthill's kitchen (an2) Zorro (z) is looking into a hand mirror (自) while treating his skin with mandarin oil and declares: "You and I (咱), my dear friend, are really beautiful!"
variant of 咱[zan2]
variant of 咱[zan2]
pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

= : Loki (lü) conducts an experiment in the space station's living room (Ø3). Using a pitch pipe (吕) he creates two standing waves, in which he keeps one mandarin (口) respectively.
to present to a superior / memorial / petition / to present (a certain appearance) / to assume (a shape) / to be (a certain color)

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) gives a presentation (呈) for Martin Luther King (王) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). He's been talking over one hour about his favorite mandarin (口).
coffee / class / grade

= + : Karl Marx (k) is drinking extremely strong coffee (咖) in front of the ashram (a1). The coffee is so strong that Karl Marx has troubles spending his energy: he is balancing on a big mandarin (口) and dancing wildly with a pom pom (加) in his other hand.
(used in loanwords for its phonetic value)

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) holds a negative (非) into the light in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) and discovers the most beautiful mandarin (口) he has ever seen. It is so wonderful it makes is endorphin (啡) (内啡素, nèi fe̅i sù) go all crazy.
beer

= + : Pocahontas (pi) is trying to refine mandarins (口) into beer (啤) as coal is refined into diamonds: by applying the sheer pressure of the Alps (卑). She missed that just inside the space station (Ø2) there's no gravity and therefore also no pressure from the Alps is exerted on the mandarin.
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

= + : You could see the cross 十 as the leaves 叶 of the mandarin 口.

= + : Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.
to be in harmony
to frighten / to scare

= + : Xi Shi (xi) climbed a ladder (下) to reach a mandarin (口) which is stored on a very high shelf in the ashram's bathroom (a4), but half way up she remembers that she is terribly afraid of heights and is scared to death (吓).
to scare / to intimidate / to threaten / (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut / (interjection showing astonishment)

= + : Hamlet (h) is standing on top of a ladder (下) and is threatening (吓) to jump down on the very last mandarin (口) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) should his demands not be fulfilled.

Words with 口

one breath / in one breath / at a stretch
to be able to read aloud fluently / to be suitable (easy enough) for reading aloud
(idiom) reluctant to speak about it / tight-lipped
to arbitrarily assert / to allege / to stick to one's statement / to cling to one's view
At the Crossroads, famous opera, based on a story from 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4]
readily / flatly (deny, admit and so on) / a mouthful / a bite
lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. learn to walk before you run
lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success
erhua variant of 一口氣|一口气[yi1 kou3 qi4]

Sentences with 口

zhù
kǒu
 
 
yù
dì
lǎo
ér
qǐng
ǎn
shàng
tia̅n