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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 feed

= + : When Bruno Bear (bu) was still a baby, Ivan Pavlov (甫) raised him up in the space station (Ø3) to later do experiments on him. In order to be able to breast feed (哺) Bruno Bear, Ivan cut a mandarin (口) into two halves and attached the two halves to his chest.
see 餔子|哺子[bu4 zi5]
to whisper / to blame, to slander

= + : A mouth (口) is whispering something in someone's ear (耳).

The Queen of Hearts (qi) got a little lonely recently being the only person on the space station. She even started to hear voices. In the bathroom (Ø4) she is holding a mandarin (口) to her ear (耳) and thinks that the mandarin is whispering (咠) something to her.
(of a smell) strong / peak season (of a crop) / (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)
to puff / to spout / to spray / to spurt

= + : Pinocchio (p) is expecting a very honored guest (贲) in the encampment. In front of the encampment ((e)n1) he sprays (喷) a lot of mandarin (口) perfume to make his guest feel well when she arrives.
lopsided / Taiwan pr. [kuai1]

= + : Willy Walrus (w) has been accused of stealing two mandarins (口) in front of the airplane (ai1). He refuses to open his bag, so the arriving police has to put him into a CT (内) to see into (内) his bag. On the CT screen they see Willy Walrus and two lopsided (呙) mandarins in his bag.
surname Guo
to gasp / to pant / asthma

= + : Chantal Chicken (chu) is tacking part in a fun race inside of the anthill (an3). She has to carry a huge mandarin (口) on her back while running the race, and already at the start line (耑) she is huffing and puffing (喘) like a cow.
a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty

= + : The moon (月) gives a mandarin (口) as a gift to Yu the Great (yu) in front of the anthill (an1), but Yu the Great finds that there is a little worm (肙) looking out of the mandarin.
throat / voice

= + : Socrates (s) has a sore throat (嗓), so he mixes himself a smoothie containing fresh mandarins (口) and mulberries (桑) inside the anglepod (ang3).
variant of 萑[huan2]
(archaic) stork / heron

= + + : The heron (雚) and the sparrow (隹) made a very copy nest for their offspring in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They build a base out of artificial lawn (艹) and decorated it with some mandarins (口) to feed their babies. Their nest is so high that only Gitta Giraffe (gu) can have a look inside because she is so tall.
to help / to assist / mutual assistance / to rush into or up / to raise or hold up / high / tall / old variant of 欀 / chariot horse (old) / change (old)

= + + + : Marie Curie (xi) is cooperating with a lot of people (襄) in a communal effort (襄) to dig a well (井) in front of the anglepod (ang1). The summer is very hot, so everyone is wearing kilts (衣). They dig the well using flutes (一) and they hope that they will unearth lots of mandarins (口) to create a mandarin well.

Words with 口

pocket / bag / sack / CL:個|个[ge4]
voice / accent
oral speech sounds (linguistics)
altercation / wrangle / angry argument
corner of the mouth
to dictate / to recount orally
colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2]
oral examination / oral test
mnemonic chant / rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order etc)
to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom) / to denounce by word and pen
(idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement / just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true
interpreter / oral translator
Stomatopoda, order of marine crustaceans (whose members are called mantis shrimps)
oral communication (psychology)
foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) / aphthous fever
(literary) inarticulate
manner of speech / tone of voice
Pokémon (Japanese media franchise)

Sentences with 口

wàn
suì
 
 
ta̅
hái
kǒu
chu̅
kuáng
yán
 
 
zì
che̅ng
qí
tia̅n
dà
shèng