啞口

as if dumb / speechless

Characters and words in 啞口

(onom.) sound of cawing / sound of infant learning to talk / variant of 呀[ya1]
dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc)

= + : Maud Younger (y) is having the worst lunch of her life in the ashram (a3). It consists of a rotten mandarin (口) and sour mapo doufu (亚). After finishing her lunch she is so disgusted that she turns mute (哑) for several days.
mute; dumb; incapable of speech / (of a voice) hoarse; husky / (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud
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).

Words with 啞口

dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless; at a loss for words
dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom); left speechless / at a loss for words

Sentences with 啞口

啞口 currently does not appear in any sentence.