口 kǒu

1. kǒu measure word measure word for people, pigs, and kitcheware
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: Used for (1) people in families (2) pigs and (3) kitchenware (CCD '口' 11; XHZD '口' 7, 8)
2. kǒu noun Kangxi radical 30
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Mouth (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. kǒu noun mouth
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 嘴 (CCD '口' 1; Unihan '口'; XHZD '口' 1)
4. kǒu noun an opening; a hole
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '口' 4, 8; Unihan '口'; XHZD '口' 2, 4)
5. kǒu noun eloquence
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 口 is the same as 口才
6. kǒu noun the edge of a blade
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Tools
   Notes: In this sense 口 is the same as 刃 (CCD '口' 9; XHZD '口'5)
7. kǒu noun edge; border
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 口 is the same as 边
8. kǒu adjective verbal; oral
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 口 is the same as 口头
9. kǒu adjective taste
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 口味 (CCD '口' 2)
10. kǒu noun population; people
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 人口 (CCD '口' 3)
11. kǒu noun an entrance; an exit; a pass
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 入口 or 出口 (CCD '口' 5, 6; XHZD '口' 3)

Contained in

• 排水口 plughole; drainage hole
• 养家糊口(養家糊口) to support one's family; to have difficulty feeding a family
• 交口称赞(交口稱贊) unanimous praise
• 灭口(滅口) to kill somebody to prevent them from divulging a secret; to silence sb
• 楼梯口(樓梯口) head of a flight of stairs
• 异口同音(異口同音) different people speaking in one voice
• 档口(檔口) stall; booth
• 信口开河(信口開河) to speak without thinking; to blurt something out
• 口甜 soft-spoken; affable
• 决口(決口) to breach; to burst
• 气口(氣口) location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM
• 光纤分布式数据接口(光纖分布式數據接口) Fiber Distributed Data Interface / FDDI
• 找借口 to look for a pretext
• 心直口快 frank and outspoken
• 口欲期 oral stage
• 启口(啟口) to start to speak; to raise a subject
• 隘口 a mountain pass
• 港口 port; harbor
• 人口数(人口數) population
• 雌性接口 female connector
• 住口 shut up; shut your mouth; stop talking
• 口器 mouthparts (of animal or insect)
• 封口 to seal; to close up ; to shut up
• 口鼻 mouth and nose
• 目怔口呆 eye startled, mouth struck dumb; stunned; stupefied
• 不冻港口(不凍港口) ice-free port
• 口红(口紅) lipstick
• 口不应心(口不應心) to say one thing but mean another; to dissimulate
• 口锋(口鋒) manner of speech; tone of voice
• 裂口 breach; split; rift; vent (volcanic crater)
• 香口胶(香口膠) chewing gum
• 口吃 to stammer; to stutter
• 发脱口齿(發脫口齒) diction; enunciation
• 一口咬定 to arbitrarily assert; to allege; to stick to one's statement; to cling to one's view
• 口不择言(口不擇言) to speak incoherently; to ramble; to talk irresponsibly
• 口涎 saliva
• 进水口(進水口) water inlet

Also contained in

交口县 、 林口 、 城口县 、 用户接口 、 张家口 、 串口 、 通用网关接口 、 大武口 、 坑口 、 山口洋 、 老河口 、 浦口 、 大沽口炮台 、 梅河口

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• 《口部》 Kǒu Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 205
• 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 151
• 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 148
• 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 148
• 卷106中 地形志二中 Volume 106b Treatise 2: Terrain 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 146
• 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 135
• 卷四十 志第十六 地理一 Volume 40 Treatises 16: Geography 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 122
• 卷106上 地形志二上 Volume 106a Treatise 2: Terrain 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 118
• 卷八十三 志第五十九 河渠一 Volume 83 Treatises 59: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 104
• 卷三十八 志第十八: 地理一 Volume 38 Treatises 18: Geography 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 99