口
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mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 口 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 口
- Common rank
- #62
- Unicode
- U+53E3
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
mouth · Heisig RSH #11
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 口
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门口 | doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 路口 | crossing; intersection (of roads) | |
| 心口不一 | heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself; saying one … | |
| 人口学 | demography | |
| 口子 | hole; opening; cut; gap; gash; my husband or wife; classifier for people (used for indicat… | |
| 有口无心 | to speak harshly but without any bad intent (idiom) | |
| 人口 | population; people | |
| 大口 | large mouth; in large bites, mouthfuls or gulps | |
| 一口气儿 | erhua variant of 一口氣|一口气[yi1 kou3 qi4] | |
| 海口市 | Haikou, prefecture-level city and capital of Hainan Province 海南省[Hai3 nan2 Sheng3] | |
| 一口 | readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite | |
| 山口 | Yamaguchi (Japanese surname, prefecture, and city) | |
| 山口 | mountain pass | |
| 口水 | saliva | |
| 口头 | oral; verbal | |
| 一口气 | one breath; in one breath; at a stretch | |
| 心口 | pit of the stomach; solar plexus; words and thoughts | |
| 出水口 | water outlet; drainage outlet | |
| 开口子 | a dike breaks; fig. to provide facilities (for evil deeds); to open the floodgates | |
| 阿拉山口市 | Alashankou, a county-level city in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治… |
Sound family
These characters use 口 as their sound component — compare how they read.