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).

Comments

He's a savage for eating it without peeling it first. Eww!

Matthias, over 1 year ago

口 character breakdown

The character 口 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 口 as component

to fasten / to button / button / buckle / knot / to arrest / to confiscate / to deduct (money) / discount / to knock / to smash, spike or dunk (a ball) / to cover (with a bowl etc) / (fig.) to tag a label on sb / (Tw) (loanword) code

= + : Karl Marx (k) manufactures a new button (扣) out of a mandarin (口) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). He does so by grapping the mandarin tightly in one hand, and carving out the button out of the peel by rotating a toy claw (扌) around the mandarin with his other hand.
button

= + : Karl Marx (k) manufactures a new button (扣) out of a mandarin (口) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). He does so by grapping the mandarin tightly in one hand, and carving out the button out of the peel by rotating a toy claw (扌) around the mandarin with his other hand.
to say / to tell / to announce / to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit / to sue

= + : Mnemonic symbol: one of these LED panels with public announcements which scroll horizontally over the panel.

= + : Guy Fawkes is informing the golden calf that it is not allowed to eat mandarins any more in the aorta's bathroom by pointing at a big LED screen stating so.
to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)

= + : Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).
variant of 合[he2]
100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tube of glue.

In the elevator's kitchen (e2), Hamlet (h) is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin (口) and glued a pointed cap (亼) to its top using a tube of glue (合).
(interj.) ha! / (onom. for laughter) / (slang) to be infatuated with / to adore / abbr. for 哈士奇[ha1 shi4 qi2], husky (dog)

= + : Hamlet built a tower of mandarins by gluing them together using a tube of glue in front of the ashram. When watching the mandarin tower he feels so overjoyed that he laughs heartily.
abbr. for 哈薩克斯坦|哈萨克斯坦[Ha1 sa4 ke4 si1 tan3], Kazakhstan / abbr. for 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Harbin

= + : Hamlet built a tower of mandarins by gluing them together using a tube of glue in front of the ashram. When watching the mandarin tower he feels so overjoyed that he laughs heartily.
a Pekinese / a pug / (dialect) to scold
boat / vessel / ship / CL:條|条[tiao2],艘[sou1],隻|只[zhi1]

= + + : Since the sea levels have risen, Chantal Chicken used to go sailing just inside the anthill's kitchen, but today, a yellow submarine got stuck in the door. Chantal Chicken has no choice but to wait next to her sailing boat on the makeshift pier which is basically just a small table. While waiting she peels and eats a mandarin.
variant of 船[chuan2]

= + + : Since the sea levels have risen, Chantal Chicken used to go sailing just inside the anthill's kitchen, but today, a yellow submarine got stuck in the door. Chantal Chicken has no choice but to wait next to her sailing boat on the makeshift pier which is basically just a small table. While waiting she peels and eats a mandarin.

Words with 口

corner of the mouth
pass / gateway / (fig.) juncture
to accept wholeheartedly / to embrace / to be won over
to speak conceited nonsense / to come out with arrogant claptrap
lit. praise fills the roads (idiom); praise everywhere / universal approbation
dragged down by having a family to feed
ice-free port (refers to Vladivostok)
a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law
Jiangkou county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tong2 ren2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
mouth full of literary phrases / to spout the classics
see 誇海口|夸海口[kua1 hai3 kou3]
Noguchi (Japanese surname)
(Internet slang) to use foul language (pun on 出口成章[chu1 kou3 cheng2 zhang1])
see 心直口快[xin1 zhi2 kou3 kuai4]
to blab / to shoot one's mouth off / to commit a gaffe

Sentences with 口

zhù
kǒu
 
 
yù
dì
lǎo
ér
qǐng
ǎn
shàng
tia̅n