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

variant of 燕[yan4]

= + + 廿 + : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.
erroneous variant of 囉|啰[luo5]
covered pot
old variant of 耇[gou3]
(literary) to choke; to have a blockage in the throat / Taiwan pr. [yi4]
(literary) the throat / (literary) (military) choke point

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