开口 (開口) kāikǒu
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kāikǒu
verb
to start to talk
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '開口'; Guoyu '開口' 1) -
kāikǒu
adjective
with open mouth; without rounded lips
Domain: Linguistics 语言学 , Subdomain: Phonetics
Notes: Term first used in rhyming dictionary Yunjing published circa 1161 and 1203 -
kāikǒu
verb
to eat or drink
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '開口' 2) -
kāikǒu
verb
for an opening to appear
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Such as a crack or hole (Guoyu '開口' 3) -
kāikǒu
phrase
to cut an opening
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: With a knife (Guoyu '開口' 4)
Contained in
- 开口成脏(開口成髒) to use foul language
- 开口子(開口子) a dike breaks; to provide facilities (for evil deeds); to open the floodgates
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- 第九十七回 Chapter 97 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
- 揆度第七十八 Chapter 78: Examining Standards Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 卷九十五 志第四十八 河渠五 Volume 95 Treatises 48: Rivers and Canals 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 3
- 第七十七回 Chapter 77 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 第八十四回 Chapter 84 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 第八十回 Chapter 80 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第五十五回 Chapter 55 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 40 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第四十四回 Chapter 44 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 1
- 卷一百七十五 列傳第六十三 衞青 董興 何洪 劉玉 仇鉞 神英 曹雄 馮禎 張俊 楊銳 Volume 175 Biographies 63: Wei Qing, Dong Xing, He Hong, Liu Yu, Chou Yue, Shen Ying, Cao Xiong, Feng Zhen, Zhang Jun, Yang Rui History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 开口道 (開口道) 宋江開口道 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第八十回 Chapter 80 — count: 10
- 新开口 (新開口) 由新開口地東入孫村 — History of Song 宋史, 卷九十二 志第四十五 河渠二 Volume 92 Treatises 45: Rivers and Canals 2 — count: 4
- 开口就是 (開口就是) 開口就是紗帽 — The Scholars 儒林外史, 第三十回 Chapter 30 — count: 3
- 开口仰 (開口仰) 开口仰食 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十九 南匈奴列傳 Volume 89: Treatise on the Southern Xiongnu — count: 3
- 开口便 (開口便) 且大凡健兒開口便言死 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷二十一 梁書21: 列傳11 龐師古 霍存 符道詔 徐懷玉 郭言 李唐賓 王虔裕 劉康乂 王彥章 賀德倫 Volume 21 Book of Later Liang 21: Biographies 11 - Pang Shigu, Huo Cun, Fu Daozhao, Xu Huaiyu, Guo Yan, Li Tangbin, Wang Qianyu, Liu Kangyi, Wang Yanzhang, He delun — count: 3
- 不复开口 (不復開口) 遂不復開口飲食 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十二 王貢兩龔鮑傳 Volume 72: Wang, Gong, two Gongs and Bao — count: 3
- 开口问道 (開口問道) 只聽得那魔王開口問道 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第三十九回 Chapter 39 — count: 3
- 欲开口 (欲開口) 奈何欲開口爭事邪 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百五十一 列傳第七十六 關董袁趙竇 Volume 151 Biographies 76: Guan, Dong, Yuan, Zhao, Dou˚ guāndǒngyuánzhàodòu — count: 2
- 一开口 (一開口) 公子誠一開口請如姬 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魏公子列傳》 Biographiy of the prince of Wei — count: 2
- 开口叫道 (開口叫道) 即開口叫道 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 2