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

• 对口型(對口型) lip synching
• 归口(歸口) to return to one's original trade; to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority
• 碍口识羞(礙口識羞) tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment
• 满口之乎者也(滿口之乎者也) mouth full of literary phrases; to spout the classics
• 接口模块(接口模塊) interface module
• 缄口结舌(緘口結舌) keep one's mouth shut and stay silent
• 恶口(惡口) to use bad language; to have a foul mouth
• 口吐珠玑(口吐珠璣) to spit out varieties of pearls; to speak eloquently
• 适口(適口) [food] in accordance with one's taste
• 叶口蝠科(葉口蝠科) Phyllostomatidae
• 进水口(進水口) water inlet
• 改口 to change one's tune; to modify one's previous remark
• 吐口 to spit; fig. to spit out (a request, an agreement etc)
• 失口 slip of the tongue; indiscretion; to blurt out a secret
• 口水鸡(口水雞) steamed chicken with chili sauce
• 隘口 a mountain pass
• 口齿伶俐(口齒伶俐) eloquent and fluent speaker; grandiloquence; the gift of the gab
• 忌口 to abstain from certain food
• 虎口 a tiger's den; a tiger's mouth; a dangerous place ; place between the thumb and index finder
• 口臭 bad breath; halitosis
• 口语沟通(口語溝通) oral communication
• 出口成章 to speak like a printed book; quick and clever talking; the gift of the gab
• 口水歌 bubblegum pop song; cover song
• 气口(氣口) location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM
• 口鼻 mouth and nose
• 开口(開口) to start to talk ; with open mouth; without rounded lips ; to eat or drink ; for an opening to appear ; to cut an opening
• 决口(決口) to breach; to burst
• 口供 oral confession
• 水道口 mouth of sewer
• 找借口 to look for a pretext
• 一口 readily; flatly
• 低平火山口 maar
• 手足口症 human hand foot and mouth disease, a viral infection
• 洞口 cave mouth/tunnel entrance ; Dongkou
• 人口 population
• 口白 narrator; spoken parts in an opera
• 口红(口紅) lipstick
• 口耳相传(口耳相傳) to teach orally
• 每端口价格(每端口價格) price per port
• 大口 big mouthful; open mouth; gulping; gobbling; gaping
• 利口酒 liqueur
• 众口同声(眾口同聲) (of people) to be of one voice ; unanimous
• 口器 mouthparts (of animal or insect)
• 转口(轉口) entrepot; transit (of goods); to deny; to go back on one's word
• 藉口 to use as an excuse; on the pretext ; to use somebody else's words
• 满口(滿口) a full mouth of (sth physical); to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc)

Also contained in

张家口地区 、 口音 、 梅河口 、 周口地区 、 坑口

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• 《口部》 Kǒu Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 206
• 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: 172
• 卷106中 地形志二中 Volume 106b Treatise 2: Terrain 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 162
• 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 159
• 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: 154
• 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: 136
• 卷四十 志第十六 地理一 Volume 40 Treatises 16: Geography 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 128
• 卷106上 地形志二上 Volume 106a Treatise 2: Terrain 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 126
• 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: 115
• 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