mouth / beak / nozzle / spout (of teapot etc) / CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]

= + : Zapatista Zebra (zu) is roaming the Eiffel Tower (ei3) to look for food. Because the floor is full of horns (觜), he is wearing safety boots (觜). With his lips (嘴) he is forming a long beak (嘴) to look for mandarins (口) between the horns.

嘴 character breakdown

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).
number 20 of the 28 constellations 二十八宿, approx. Orion 獵戶座|猎户座
variant of 嘴[zui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Orion. Orion (觜) is making Zapatista Zebra (zu) lick his boots (此) which have horns (角) attached to their tips. If only he had a few mandarins to put these on the horns, but unfortunately there aren't any. Zapatista Zebra has to be extremely careful to not hurt his mouth (觜).

Characters with 嘴 as component

嘴 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 嘴

to hold one's tongue / Shut up!
lively discussion with everybody talking at once
empty talk / mere rhetoric / palaver
lit. knife mouth but heart of bean curd; sharp tongue concealing a caring heart
to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart (idiom)
(bird species of China) Indian skimmer (Rynchops albicollis)
(bird species of China) slender-billed scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus superciliaris)
to pout / to stick out one's lips
(bird species of China) ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii)
see 七嘴八舌[qi1 zui3 ba1 she2]

Sentences with 嘴

嘴 currently does not appear in any sentence.