口

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

mouth

HSK 1 N4

Human →Body →Face

kǒu

コウ、ク

くち

구

Pictograph of a mouth.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

口

Regular

Modern

Chinese

口 [kǒu]

mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Japanese

口くち同音

noun

mouth
opening; hole; gap; orifice
mouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece
gate; door; entrance; exit
speaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip)
taste; palate
mouth (to feed)
opening (i.e. vacancy); available position
invitation; summons
kind; sort; type
opening (i.e. beginning)

suffix

counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money) and stove burners
counter for swords, blades, etc. (often read ふり in museum, etc. contexts)

口く、こう同音

noun Buddhism mouth; speech
suffixcounter counter for people or implements (usu. こう)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (6)

椅子に横たわる私に、歯科衛生士の女性が「はい、お口を開けてください」と言ったのです。

The woman dental hygienist said to me, lying down in the chair, "Right, please open your mouth."

私たちはそのまま洞窟の口にボートで突っ込んで行きました。

We plunged into the cave opening on our boat and continued on.

瓶の口までいっぱいに入れて空気が入らないようにしなさい。

Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air.

あの人は口と腹が反対だ。

He says one thing and means another.

Japanese Names

口くち

Kuchi surname

口くちだ

Kuchida unclassified name

口さきくち

Sakikuchi surname

口はまのぐち

Hamanoguchi surname

CHINESE WORDS (200)

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JAPANESE WORDS (200)

口にする [くちにする] #1,364

to taste

口を開く [くちをひらく] #1,451

to open one's mouth (to talk)

⭐ 口調 [くちょう] #1,485

tone (of voice)

⭐ 悔しい [くやしい] #1,594

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice)

to cut into (a conversation)

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KOREAN WORDS (40)

entrance; entry; gate

호구 #29,618

number of households; number of household members

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