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- mouth
- classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
- classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- tiger's den
- dangerous place
- the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
Trad. 對口
- (of two performers) to speak or sing alternately
- to be fit for the purposes of a job or task
- (of food) to suit sb's taste
- to be able to read aloud fluently
- to be suitable (easy enough) for reading aloud
Trad. 脈口
- location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM
Trad. 礙口
- to shy to speak out
- tongue-tied
- to hesitate
- too embarrassing for words
- window
- opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window)
- computer operating system window
- fig. medium
- intermediary
- showpiece
- testing ground
- Linkou county in Mudanjiang 牡丹江, Heilongjiang
- Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- incomplete meal of a single dish
- meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine
- rice without meat or vegetables
- to change one's tune
- to modify one's previous remark
- to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5])
- tear or rupture
- to have a tear (e.g. in one's clothes)
- without restraint (e.g. of swearing)
- oral command
- a word of command (used in drilling troops or gymnasts)
- password (used by sentry)
Trad. 口傳
- to convey orally; to pass on by word of mouth (instructions, information, stories etc)
- big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc)
- open mouth
- gulping
- gobbling
- gaping
- tone of voice
- connotation in intonation
- accent (regional etc)
- snout
- muzzle
- lips
- protruding portion of an animal's face
Trad. 進口
- to import
- imported
- entrance
- inlet (for the intake of air, water etc)
- hole
- opening
- cut
- gap
- gash
- my husband or wife
- classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc)
- precedent
- a port for external trade
- a trading or transit post on border between countries
Trad. 閘口
- open sluice gate
- (toll) station
- boarding gate (airport etc)
- (fig.) gateway (access point)
Trad. 口徑
- bore; caliber; diameter; aperture
- (fig.) stance (on an issue); version (of events); account; narrative; line
- (broadcasting) to speak to the audience
- to advertise a product by speaking directly to the audience
- endorsement (by a celebrity for a product, delivered orally)
- to take medicine orally; oral (contraceptive etc)
- to say that one is convinced
Trad. 滅口
- to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret
- to silence sb
Trad. 歸口
- to return to one's original trade
- to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority
- (the) relevant (department in charge of sth)
- sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator
- a captive who can provide information
Trad. 滿口
- a full mouth of (sth tangible)
- to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc)
- (to agree etc) unreservedly
Trad. 領口
- collar
- neckband
- neckline
- the place where the two ends of a collar meet
- (of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc
Trad. 漢口
- Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
Trad. 口訣
- mnemonic chant
- rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order etc)
Trad. 順口
- to read smoothly (of text)
- to blurt out (without thinking)
- to suit one's taste (of food)
- Yamaguchi (Japanese surname and place name)
- Yamaguchi prefecture in the southwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州[Ben3 zhou1]
Trad. 口語
- colloquial speech
- spoken language
- vernacular language
- slander
- gossip
- CL:門|门[men2]
Trad. 氣口
- location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM
Trad. 轉口
- entrepot
- transit (of goods)
- (coll.) to deny
- to go back on one's word
- to keep one's lips sealed
- (of a wound) to heal
- to seal (an envelope, bag, container etc)
- the sealed opening of an envelope, bag etc
- (fig.) to lock down; to finalize (a decision, plan etc)
- animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc)
- beast of burden
- lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口)
- fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
- to use as an excuse
- on the pretext
- excuse
- pretext
- also written 借口[jie4 kou3]
Trad. 口風
- meaning behind the words
- what sb really means to say
- one's intentions as revealed in one's words
- tone of speech
Trad. 口齒
- mouth and teeth
- enunciation
- to articulate
- diction
- age (of cattle, horses etc)
- (knitting, basket weaving etc) to cast off; to bind
- (of a wound) to close up; to heal
- erotic (loanword mimicking the shape of Japanese katakana エロ, pronounced "ero")
Trad. 戶口
- population (counted as number of households for census or taxation)
- registered residence
- residence permit
- (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account
Trad. 風口
- air vent
- drafty place
- wind gap (geology)
- tuyere (furnace air nozzle)
- (fig.) hot trend
- fad