口
Meanings
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- 1.mouth
- 2.classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
- 3.classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Wiktionary
- 1.mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)
- 2.entrance; opening; mouth (of an object)
- 3.gateway; mountain pass
- 4.hole; cut
- 5.blade; edge of a knife
- 6.port
- 7.perimeter
- 8.government organ; department
- 9.Classifier for family members, populations, livestock. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 10.Classifier for bites or mouthfuls.
- 11.Classifier for things with an opening: wells, pots, jars, guns, etc.
- 12.Classifier for utensils with a blade: knives, swords, etc.
- 13.to fellate
- 14.a surname
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – resembles an open mouth. In the oracle bone script, radical 口 is used for characters having abstract meanings. Such a character can have a figurative meaning derived from the phonetic part, e.g. 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right”) = 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “right hand”) + 口 and 𪪺 (“strong; powerful”) = 弓 (OC *kʷɯŋ, “bow”) + 口, or be an unrelated borrowing, e.g. 否 (OC *brɯʔ, *pɯʔ, “no”) = 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “calyx”) + 口. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku(w) (“mouth”). Cognate with Garo ku·sik (“mouth”), Tangut 𗋈 (*ŋwu², “mouth”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
有人在門口。
There's somebody at the door.
有人在門口。
Someone's at the door.
有人在門口。
Someone is at the door.
有人在門口。
There's someone at the door.
這口井乾涸了。
The well ran dry.
我家有5口人。
We are a family of five.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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