口
口 character breakdown
The character 口 cannot be broken down into individual components.
Characters with 口 as component
to fasten / to button / button / buckle / knot / to arrest / to confiscate / to deduct (money) / discount / to knock / to smash, spike or dunk (a ball) / to cover (with a bowl etc) / (fig.) to tag a label on sb / (Tw) (loanword) code
to say / to tell / to announce / to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit / to sue
to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)
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Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).
100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]
(interj.) ha! / (onom. for laughter) / (slang) to be infatuated with / to adore / abbr. for 哈士奇[ha1 shi4 qi2], husky (dog)
boat / vessel / ship / CL:條|条[tiao2],艘[sou1],隻|只[zhi1]
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Since the sea levels have risen, Chantal Chicken used to go sailing just inside the anthill's kitchen, but today, a yellow submarine got stuck in the door. Chantal Chicken has no choice but to wait next to her sailing boat on the makeshift pier which is basically just a small table. While waiting she peels and eats a mandarin.
variant of 船[chuan2]
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Since the sea levels have risen, Chantal Chicken used to go sailing just inside the anthill's kitchen, but today, a yellow submarine got stuck in the door. Chantal Chicken has no choice but to wait next to her sailing boat on the makeshift pier which is basically just a small table. While waiting she peels and eats a mandarin.
Words with 口
to arbitrarily assert / to allege / to stick to one's statement / to cling to one's view
At the Crossroads, famous opera, based on a story from 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4]
lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. learn to walk before you run
lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success