Mnemonic comic for

Translation

kǒu = k + ou3: mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic

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

(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) 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.
to be in harmony
surname Ye

= + : 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.
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats

= + : 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 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.
to frighten / to scare

= + : Marie Curie (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 vomit / to throw up

= + : Tommy Turtle ate to many mandarins in the space station. He can't help but vomit until he produced a muddy pile of mandarins in the bathroom.
to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)

= + : Tommy Turtle is spitting mandarins at a dusty, muddy earth from inside the space station.
variant of 吻[wen3]

= + : Willy Walrus (w) celebrates the new year by following the custom to fly to the mandarin (口) mounted right below the ceiling of the encampment ((e)n3) using bat wings (勿) and giving it a french kiss (吻).
kiss / to kiss / mouth

= + : Willy Walrus (w) celebrates the new year by following the custom to fly to the mandarin (口) mounted right below the ceiling of the encampment ((e)n3) using bat wings (勿) and giving it a french kiss (吻).
variant of 啊[a1]
expel breath / my goodness

= + : Hamlet (h) started to train to sit on a bed of nails (可) in front of the elevator (e1). After every session he treats his skin with a mandarin (口) and expels (呵) "oh my goodness!" (呵)

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]
ice-free port (refers to Vladivostok)
not to be crushed (idiom) / to be determined to have one's revenge
parallel port (computing)
parallel port (computing)
serial port (computing)
serial port (computing)
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