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

within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a dart board, because you always try to hit the center.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu-) is throwing dinosaur bones (丨) as darts on a dart board in front of the engine ((e)ng1). To make it a bit more difficult he's throwing mandarins (口) into the air as well and skewers them up right in the center (中 is a mandarin skewered on a dinosaur bone) in mid flight with the dinosaur bones. He's still able to consistently hit the center (中) of the dart board.
China / Chinese / surname Zhong
to hit (the mark) / to be hit by / to suffer / to win (a prize, a lottery)
to curve / to return / to revolve
variant of 迴|回[hui2]
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

= + : Helga Horse (hu-) smuggled herself into the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (-ei2). She covered herself in an enclosure (囗) full of mandarins (口). Unfortunately, she missed one little detail: The box full of mandarins is to be shipped back (回) to China soon.
can / may / able to / to approve / to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly / very

= + : Karl Marx (k) is challenging his abilities (可) in the elevator's living room (e3). He tries to force a nail (丁) into a mandarin (口), just by using his head. On top of that he tries to do so one thousand times, in order to create a bed of nails (mnemonic symbol for 可).

= + : Alternative mnemonic symbol: kebab, from the pronunciation "ke". Karl Marx (k) is preparing a kebab (mnemonic symbol for 可) in the elevator's living room (e3). He also skewers mandarins (口) on the long steel nails (丁) and will only allow (可) his guests to eat the rest of the kebab if they eat their mandarins first.
used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
to sing / to call loudly / to chant

= + : The lancelet (昌) finds Charlie Chaplin (ch) singing (唱) loudly while taking a shower in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). The lancelet is extremely annoyed by the singing an stuffs a mandarin (口) into Charlie Chaplin's mouth (口) to make him stop.
other / another / separate / separately

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to separate two liquids, one can use a distiller.

= + : In engine's bathroom Li Qingzhao wants to distill a liquor out of mandarins, but she can't find a wall plug to plug the distiller's power cable in.
ancient / old / paleo-

= + : Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.

Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
surname Gu

Words with 口

a person's preferences / tastes (in food) / flavor
oral message
oral confession (as opposed to 筆供|笔供[bi3 gong4]) / statement / deposition
oral command / a word of command (used in drilling troops or gymnasts) / password (used by sentry)
hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
tone of voice / connotation in intonation / accent (regional etc) / snout / muzzle / lips / protruding portion of an animal's face
to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again
to stammer / to stutter / also pr. [kou3 ji2]
food / salary (old) / a pretext / a cause for gossip
to speak conceited nonsense / to come out with arrogant claptrap
orally transmitted
oral sucker (e.g. on bloodsucking parasite)
the area north of the Great Wall
lit. a mouth spitting with poisonous flames / to speak angrily to sb (idiom)
mouthparts (of animal or insect)
alcoholic drink made by fermenting chewed rice
your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (borrowed from Japanese)
your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (four-character version of 口嫌體正直|口嫌体正直[kou3 xian2 ti3 zheng4 zhi2])

Sentences with 口

zhù
kǒu
 
 
yù
dì
lǎo
ér
qǐng
ǎn
shàng
tia̅n