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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, almost 2 years ago

口 character breakdown

The character 口 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 口 as component


= + : Helga Horse (hu) wants to eat a mandarin (口) all by herself in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4), but the communist (共) causes an uproar (哄) because she is supposed to share the mandarin with everyone.

= + : The pilgrim (朝) is getting ready in the aorta's kitchen (ao2) for his big trip. He packed lots and lots of mandarins (口) on his back. Charlie Chaplin (ch) mocks (嘲) him for just packing mandarins, but as Charlie is laughing, he trips over a mandarin and falls, giving the pilgrim an opportunity to mock (嘲) him in return.

= + : The little prince (肖) took a part time job working as a sentry (哨) for Sherlock Holmes (sh). In the aortas's bathroom (ao4) he whistles (哨), thereby giving the secret signal to Sherlock. Sherlock answers by holding up a mandarin (口), which is the secret signal of acknowledgement.

= + : Mnemonic symbol from 服务员, a waiter.

= + : Yu the Great and a crab are having dinner just inside the anthill's kitchen. They ordered mandarins, and the waiter serves them.

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) ordered (咐) a mandarin (口) but is shocked as she gets the paycheck (付) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) since it is so expensive to ship a mandarin and a paycheck to the space station.
to take possession of / to occupy / to take up

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a yellow umbrella. James II of England (zh) occupies (占) the anthill's bathroom (an4). He uses a pennant (⺊) stuck into a mandarin (口) to mark his territory. The ants are silently protesting with yellow umbrellas (占).
foot / to be sufficient / ample

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.
right (-hand) / the Right (politics) / west (old)

= 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: a nazi.

A nazi wants to eat a mandarin in the outhouse's bathroom, but Maud Younger cuts it right in the middle with a pair of scissors.

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

zhù
kǒu
 
 
yù
dì
lǎo
ér
qǐng
ǎn
shàng
tia̅n