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

• 寸口脉(寸口脈) pulse taken at the wrist
• 口淫 oral sex; fellatio
• 费口舌(費口舌) to argue needlessly; waste time explaining
• 口腔 oral cavity
• 归口(歸口) to return to one's original trade; to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority
• 心口 pit of the stomach; solar plexus; words and thoughts
• 户口制(戶口制) PRC system of compulsory registration of households
• 吊胃口 to keep somebody in suspense; to tantalize; to keep on tenterhooks
• 随口胡诌(隨口胡謅) to talk random nonsense; to say whatever comes into one's head
• 入口处(入口處) main entrance
• 口口相传(口口相傳) to be transmitted orally
• 口水歌 bubblegum pop song; cover song
• 心口如一 to say what you think
• 出入口 gateway
• 口水鸡(口水雞) steamed chicken with chili sauce
• 羞口难开(羞口難開) to be too embarrassed for words
• 找借口 to look for a pretext
• 上口 to be able to read aloud fluently; to be suitable (easy enough) for reading aloud
• 口讷(口訥) clumsy in speech
• 转口(轉口) entrepot; transit (of goods); to deny; to go back on one's word
• 井口 entrance to well
• 改口费(改口費) a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law
• 打口 surplus (or cut-out) stock from Western countries
• 开口子(開口子) a dike breaks; to provide facilities (for evil deeds); to open the floodgates
• 朗朗上口 to flow right off the tongue (of lyrics or poetry); to recite with ease; catchy (of a song)
• 口蘑 Saint George's mushroom (Tricholoma mongplicum)
• 发脱口齿(發脫口齒) diction; enunciation
• 人口密度 population density
• 口口声声(口口聲聲) to keep on saying; to repeat over and over again
• 桶口 bunghole
• 小两口儿(小兩口兒) young married couple
• 夸下海口(誇下海口) to boast a mouth as big as the sea; to exaggerate
• 十字路口 crossroads; intersection
• 裤口(褲口) trouser leg opening
• 口德 propriety in speech
• 乃堆拉山口 Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
• 风口(風口) air vent; drafty place; wind gap; tuyere (furnace air nozzle)
• 排水口 plughole; drainage hole
• 粗口 swear words; obscene language; foul language
• 口袋 a bag ; a bag; a pocket
• 闲口(閒口) idle talk
• 口吃 to stammer; to stutter
• 满口称赞(滿口稱讚) to praise profusely

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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