口乾舌燥

口
口
干
乾
舌
舌
燥
燥
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much

Characters and words in 口乾舌燥

口
kǒu = k + ou3
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).
乾
乹
qián = qi + an2
old variant of 乾[qian2]
乾
qián = qi + an2
surname Qian
乾
qián = qi + an2
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
干
乾
ga̅n = g + an1
surname Gan
干 = 一 + 十 : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
干
乾
ga̅n = g + an1
dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore
干 = 一 + 十 : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
乾
亁
qián = qi + an2
variant of 乾[qian2]
干
乾
ga̅n = g + an1
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
舌
ji̅ = ji + Ø1
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
舌
shé = sh + e2
tongue
舌 = 千 + 口 : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
燥
zào = z + ao4
dry / parched / impatient
燥 = 喿 + 火 : Zorro (z) suffers from constipation (燥) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), so he concocts a traditional Chinese medicine. He puts a cuckoo's clock (喿) in a desiccator (燥) and starts a fire (火) under it to dry (燥) the clock.

Words with 口乾舌燥

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Sentences with 口乾舌燥

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