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Meaning	mouth, opening    口
Explanation	This is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
Used in these characters: 中 JLPT HSK 1 middle, center, among, China zhōng, zhòng 中 丨 口 The line 丨 in the center of the square 口 shows the middle.   和 JLPT HSK 1 harmony, peace, together with, Japan hé, hè, huó, hú 禾 口 Left: rice plant 禾, right: mouth 口 Who has rice (plants) in his mouth is: in harmony.   后 JLPT HSK 1 empress, queen, behind, rear, afterwards hòu 尸 口 Top: var. of buttock seen from the side 尸, below: opening 口 as anus, in the sense of 'behind' (Originates in the custom that the empress followed behind the emperor.) The one following 'behind' is the empress.   同 JLPT HSK 1 same, like, similar, alike, together with tóng 同 冂 口 A container upside down: 冂, one 一 and an opening 口 All containers only have one opening, and that is: the same.   名 JLPT HSK 1 reputation, (good) name, famous míng 夕 口 Evening 夕 (Resembles the moon 月, but since a line is missing, it is only the evening) and mouth 口 In the evening they talk about people's reputation.   听 JLPT HSK 1 to obey, to listen, to hear tīng 口 斤 Left: mouth 口, right: axe 斤 With your mouth (= arguments) or your axe (= brute force) you can make somebody obey.   呢 JLPT HSK 1 End-particle: "What about...?", "And...?", "okay?" ne, ní 口 尼 尸 匕 Left: Mouth 口, right: buddhist nun 尼 (buttocks from side 尸, to sit 匕) May the mouth of a Buddhist nun (talk)? ..and what about?   叫 JLPT HSK 1 to shout, to call jiào 口 丩 Left: mouth 口, right: twisted 丩(image of two intertwined threads) The mouth is distorted when shouting.   吗 JLPT HSK 1 question particle, morphine mǎ, ma, má 口 馬 Left: mouth 口, right: horse 马 (traditionally: 馬 with mane 三, four legs 灬 and tail ㄅ) A mouth (as big) as that of a horse is good for: questions.   吃 JLPT HSK 1 to eat, to have a meal, to absorb chī 口 乞 Left: mouth 口, right: to beg 乞 (There lies [= a lying person 人] a disadvantaged [= from the second 乙 class of society] and begs) (second 乙 = two 二 written quickly) It's for the mouth when you beg for sth. to eat.   号 JLPT HSK 1 number (of people), mark, day of a month háo, hào 口 丂 Top: mouth 口, bottom: winding seaweed 丂 (here: the number "5") When the mouth says "5" it is a number.   哪 JLPT HSK 1 how, which nǎ, na, něi 口 那 刀 ⻏ Left: mouth 口, right: that, those 那 (double-二-edged sword 刀 and village⻏) A mouth spoke about the double-edged sword in the village, but it is which?   喝 JLPT HSK 1 to drink, to shout loudly, My goodness! hē, hè 口 曷 日 勹 人 Left: mouth 口, right: interrogation 曷 (= The mouth with tongue 曰 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation) His mouth wants (when the sun is over the wrapped person 人) something: to drink.   喂 JLPT HSK 1 hello (on telephone), to feed (i.e. animal) wèi 口 畏 田 衣 Left: mouth 口, right: awe, reverence 畏 (.. because he has rice fields 田 and [good] clothes 衣.) His mouth was in awe when saying: "Hello!"   事 JLPT HSK 2 affair, matter, thing, item, work shì 亅 口 十 From top: ten 十, mouth 口, hand /彐 Ten mouths and only one hand: What an affair!   可 JLPT HSK 2 be possible, can, to approve, to permit kě 可 口 丁 Nail 丁 and opening 口 The nail into the opening should be possible.   吧 JLPT HSK 2 modal particle for polite suggestion ...right?, ...OK? bā, ba 口 巴 Left: mouth 口 right: hope 巴 (Behind the doorknob 巴 you may hope.) If my mouth (= my speech) is hoping for something, this is a polite suggestion.   虽 JLPT HSK 2 although, even though suī 口 虫 At top: mouth: 口, below: insect 虫 (The body 口 and the sting 厶 of an insect.) In the mouth an insect? Okay, although, ..   员 JLPT HSK 2 member, person, employee yuán 员 口 贝 Top: mouth 口, bottom: shell/money 贝/貝 (貝 = cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell-money) If you have a mouth and money, you can become a member.   别 JLPT HSK 2 to separate, to distinguish, to leave, to classify, do to not bié, biè 另 口 力 刂 Left: another 另 (If it doesn't work with words 口, you have to try it with force 力: That's sth. different.), right: knife 刂 When you work on something 口 with force or a knife, you are separating.   知 JLPT HSK 2 to know, to be aware zhī 知 矢 口 Left: an arrow 矢 (= An arrow ノ in the sky 天), right: a mouth 口 (here: a target) The arrow hits the target, if it knows it.   右 JLPT HSK 2 right side, on the right yòu 右 口 Top: hand /彐, below: mouth 口 The hand for the mouth (= You eat with it.), is your right.   哥 JLPT HSK 2 elder brother gē 可 口 丁 Comprises twice: possibility/can do 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.) The one, who can very much (= the double of me), is my elder brother.   司 JLPT HSK 2 administration, to take charge of, to manage sī 司 口 可 In a corner ⌝ is sb. who throws a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口: In the administration.   唱 JLPT HSK 2 sing, to call loudly, to chant chàng 口 昌 日 Left: mouth 口, right: prosperous, flourishing 昌 (Two suns 日 and it is flourishing.) A mouth as big as two suns makes a good singer.   告 JLPT HSK 2 announce, to tell, to inform, to say gào 告 牛 口 Top: cow 牛, below: mouth 口 The cow opens the mouth to announce something.   问 JLPT HSK 2 to ask, to inquire after wèn 門 口 Outside: gate 门/門, below: mouth 口 The mouth at the gate is asking.   啡 JLPT HSK 2 coffee fēi 口 非 Left: mouth 口, right: denying 非 (wings 羽 are opposing each other, but here as the image of a filter 非) It is for the mouth and comes through the filter: coffee = 咖啡 [kāfēi].   咖 JLPT HSK 2 coffee, class, grade kā 口 加 Left: mouth 口, right: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat]) For the mouth sth. (=good taste) is added by a special class/grade of coffee = 咖啡 [kāfēi]   如 JLPT HSK 3 as, as if, such as rú 女 如 口 Left: woman 女, right: mouth 口 The women's mouths are as such.   向 JLPT HSK 3 in a direction, towards xiàng 向 口 A house 冂 with a chimney ノ (This also can be seen as a variation of roof 宀) and with a window 口 At the house the window is in: this direction.   口 JLPT HSK 3 mouth, opening, entrance kǒu 口 A mouth wide open.   句 JLPT HSK 3 sentence, clause, phrase jù 句 勹 口 Outside: wrap up/cover 勹, inside: mouth 口 Something "wrapped" 勹 out the mouth 口 is a sentence.   啊 JLPT HSK 3 interjection of surprise: Ah!, Oh! ā, á, ǎ, à, a 口 阝 可 Left: mouth 口, right: (exclamation of approval) 阿 (From the elevated point of a hill 阝 there is the possibility 可 [because of better sound transmission] to: shout) A mouth on a hill can shout out: Ah! Oh!   总 JLPT HSK 3 in every case, always, gather, overall, chief zǒng 丷 口 心 From the top: coming out 丷, mouth 口, heart 心 (not only half-truths) What comes out of your mouth and heart, shall always be the 'whole'.   加 JLPT HSK 3 to add, plus, Canada 加拿大 jiā 加 力 口 Left: power 力, right: mouth 口 (It is meant: to eat) For (getting) power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added'.   嘴 JLPT HSK 3 nozzle, mouth, beak, spout (of teapot etc) zuǐ 口 角 Left: mouth 口, right: 觜 (stop 止, sitting person 匕), corner, horn 角 (image of the horn of an animal) This 'mouth' can stop the outlet, has to sit well and is made of horn: the nozzle/mouth.   史 JLPT HSK 3 history, annals shǐ 口 人 Mouth 口 and person 人 with a wide step (cf. unit of length 丈) With the mouth, the person who made wide steps, tells his history.   哭 JLPT HSK 3 to cry, to weep kū 口 犬 Top: two mouths 口 (here: two eyes), bottom: dog 犬 (here: mouth with corners drawn down and a tear 丶 From two eyes ロロ a tear 丶 runs to the mouth 大 when: crying.   响 JLPT HSK 3 sound, noise, echo xiǎng 口 向 Left: mouth 口, right: direction towards 向 (At the house 冂 the window 口 is in: this ノ direction.) It comes from a mouth or you hear it through the window 口 of a house 冂: A sound.   裙 JLPT HSK 3 skirt qún 衣 君 尹 口 Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: monarch, master 君 (Here: hand with needle ノ and circumferential closed 口 skirt [in cross-sectional view]) This clothing is sewn made with a needle in a hand and looks (in cross-sectional view) like a skirt: The skirt!   只 JLPT HSK 3 just one of a several, unique, merely, only zhī, zhǐ 只 口 八 Image of a person consisting only of a mouth 口 and two legs 八 This person has a huge mouth, which is only one and unique.   啤 JLPT HSK 3 beer pí 口 卑 Left: mouth 口, right: vulgar/low 卑 (A such untidy field 田 is tenfold 十 vulgar.) For the mouth, the vulgar (drink) is: beer.   另 JLPT HSK 4 other, another, separate, separately lìng 另 口 力 Top: mouth 口, bottom: force 力 If it doesn't work with 口 (= mouth), you have to try it with force 力: That's an other thing.   合 JLPT HSK 4 to fit, to join, to close, to be equal to, 100 ml gě, hé 合 口 Top: a cover (here: a lid of a pot), below: pot/container 口 The lid on the container fits.   呼 JLPT HSK 4 to breath out, to exhale, to shout, to cry hū 口 平 Left: mouth 口, right: particle for question 乎 (If the scales 平 with that roundness亅 at the bottom is still even, is the question 乎.) The mouth with the question is breathing out or shouting.   味 JLPT HSK 4 taste, smell wèi 口 未 Left: mouth 口, right: not yet 未 (The upper shorter branch 一 of the tree 木 is "not yet".) In the mouth have young shoots (="what is not yet") a special taste. [In contrast: In the mouth 口 old 古 things taste: hard 固]   叶 JLPT HSK 4 leaf (of a plant), page yè 口 十 Left: mouth 口 (here: picture of a leaf), right: was traditionally: 葉, but now: 十, as a tree 木 with: tree crown 一, tree trunk 丨 but without roots 八 A leaf 口 of the tree crown 一, stands for: Leaves.   吸 JLPT HSK 4 to inhale, to breathe, to suck in, to absorb xī 口 及 Left: mouth 口, right: reach, extend 及 (A hand stretched out to reach 丿 sth.) The mouth reaches to the cigarette ノ in a hand to inhale.   呀 JLPT HSK 4 (sound of surprise) ah!, oh! yā, ya 口 牙 Left: mouth 口, right: tusk 牙 (elephant's 象 head with a tusk ノ) A mouth with a tusk, I am surprised: Oh!   台 JLPT HSK 4 stage, tribune, terrace, stand, support tái 台 厶 口 Top: nose 厶, below: mouth 口 The nose is above the mouth as if on a tribune.   售 JLPT HSK 4 to sell, to make or carry out (a plan or intrigue etc) shòu 隹 口 Top: bird 隹, bottom: mouth 口 (here: cage) If I get the bird into the cage, I can sell it.   各 JLPT HSK 4 each, every, various gè 各 口 夂 Top: upturned foot or crossed legs 夂, below: mouth 口 (here: futon/cushion) Sitting cross-legged on a cushion does everybody.   咱 JLPT HSK 4 I or me, we (including the person spoken to) zán, zá 口 自 Left: mouth 口, right: self 自 (The accented ノ eye 目 shows the own self.) The mouth itself, that is me.   否 JLPT HSK 4 to negate, to deny, not, evil fǒu, pǐ 口 不 Top: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!), below: mouth 口 A "not" out of a mouth is: a negation.   程 JLPT HSK 4 regulation, rule, order, procedure chéng 禾 口 王 Left: rice plant 禾, right: to submit, petition 呈 (With your mouth 口 at the king 王 to submit sth.) Rice plants for the mouth of the king: This is the regulation!   咳 JLPT HSK 4 cough hāi, ké 口 亥 Left: mouth 口, right: (zodiac) pig 亥 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶) Out of his mouth he grunts like a pig: he coughs!   命 JLPT HSK 4 life, fate, order or command mìng 口 令 Left: mouth 口, top/right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered) The mouth orders to live.   咸 JLPT HSK 4 salted, salty xián 咸 口 戎 或 Inside: mouth 口, rest: 11th branch of earth 戌 (a halberd 戈) (cf. maybe 或) The taste is for the person 人 (= ノ & 一) in the mouth 口 like a halberd 戈 such salty   嗽 JLPT HSK 4 cough sòu 口 欶 束 欠 Left: mouth 口, right: 欶 (bundle 束 [a mouth behind a tree], lack 欠 [A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.]) If you open your mouth so that it is 'treewide' open, like a yawning 欠 person: that is cough.   喊 JLPT HSK 5 to yell, to shout, to call out for (a person) hǎn 口 咸 戎 Left: mouth 口, right: salty 咸 (The taste is for the person 人 (= ノ & 一) in the mouth 口 like a halberd 戈 such salty) In his mouth he had such much salt that he yelled and screamed.   召 JLPT HSK 5 to call together, to summon, to convene shào, zhào 召 口 刀 Top: sword 刀, bottom: mouth 口 With the sword and mouth they were called together.   固 JLPT HSK 5 hard, strong, solid, undoubtedly gù 固 囗 口 古 Outside frame 囗, but here: mouth 口, inside: old 古 (= tomb stone). [Some things like the meat of old animals or full-grown vegetable becomes hard with age.] In the mouth old things taste: hard. [In contrast: In the mouth 口 have young things (= this is "not yet 未") a special taste 味]   哈 JLPT HSK 5 laughter, yawn hā, hǎ 口 合 Left: mouth 口, right: to fit 合 (The lid fits on the pot 口), here: person 人, one 一, mouth 口) The mouths of the persons 人 laughing like one 一 mouth 口: is loud laughter   启 JLPT HSK 5 to open, to start, to initiate, to awaken qǐ 戶 口 Left: sliding door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), right: mouth 口 (here: entrance) The sliding door is the entrance, where it (= the inner) starts and opens.   呆 JLPT HSK 5 foolish, stupid, expressionless dāi 口 木 Top: mouth 口, below: tree 木 A mouth eating a tree is foolish.   辑 JLPT HSK 5 gather up, collect, edit, compile jí 車 口 耳 Left: vehicle 车 (車= cart from above with axle 丨, load-area 日 wheels 二), right: whisper 咠 (from the mouth 口 to the ear 耳) - But here: 口 = 1 parking space and 耳 = 3 parking spaces If the vehicles are not each in one space, but together in (a group of) three, they are gathered up.   吹 JLPT HSK 5 to blow, puff, boast, brag chuī 口 欠 Left: mouth 口, right: lack 欠 (A yawning person 人 is lacking sth., namely good manners) If the 'out-of-the-mouth" is lacking sth, it is just blowing.   含 JLPT HSK 5 to contain (in the mouth), to suck hán 今 口 Top: now 今 (Put the cover into the corner フ Now!), bottom: mouth 口 Now the mouth contains it.   吓 JLPT HSK 5 to frighten, to scare, terrify xià 口 下 Left: mouth 口, right: down(wards) 下 The mouth is directed downwards when you frighten someone.   品 JLPT HSK 5 product, goods, kind pǐn 口 品 3 Three boxes with goods.   善 JLPT HSK 5 goodness, benevolent, well-disposed, improve shàn 善 羊 口 From top: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep), stand 立, mouth 口 A sheep standing with a gaping mouth is good and benevolent.   器 JLPT HSK 5 equipment, device, tool, utensil qì 口 犬 At the top: to cry 哭 or: Four mouths 口, dog 犬 (Here: a big 大 with an accent 丶 for emphasis as a "very big") For four mouths you need a very big equipment.   吐 JLPT HSK 5 to vomit, to throw up, to spit tǔ, tù 口 土 Left: mouth 口, right: earth/ground 土 From his mouth to the ground he disgorged the vomit.   咬 JLPT HSK 5 to bite, to nip yǎo 口 交 Left: mouth 口, right: exchange, crossing 交 (six 六 crosses 㐅) The mouth is in exchange (with the food) at every bite.   吨 JLPT HSK 5 ton (measure of weight), tonnage dūn 口 屯 屮 Left: mouth 口 (here: container), right: barracks 屯 (Where previously plants 屮 pierced the soil 一, they build barracks. ) (Large quantities were needed for the supply) The container for the barracks weights one ton.   喷 JLPT HSK 5 to spout, to spray, to spurt, to puff pēn, pèn 口 卉 廾 贝 Left: mouth 口, right: 贲 (grasses/thirty 卉, money 贝) The mouth spouts 30x money.   吻 JLPT HSK 5 kiss, to kiss wěn 口 勿 Left: mouth 口, right: 'do not' 勿 (shows sun shine) The mouth shines when kissing.   吵 JLPT HSK 5 to quarrel, to make a noise, disturbing chǎo 口 少 Left: mouth 口, right: few/little 少 (A small 小 stroke ノ is too few.) With your mouth you can make a little quarrel and noise.   嗯 JLPT HSK 5 (sound being surprised or of approval), Well!, Hmmm! ǹg, ńg 口 因 心 Left: mouth 口, right: favor, kindness 恩 (The reason 因 is in his heart 心, that he is that kind.) The mouth makes after that kindness sounds of surprise.   唉 JLPT HSK 5 'oh dear' or grunt/sigh of agreement, 'yes' āi, ài 口 矣 厶 矢 Left: mouth 口, right: end-particle 矣 (Ìf the nose 厶 is hit by an arrow 矢, it is the end.) [arrow 矢 = An arrow ノ in the sky 天] The mouth gives at the end: the approval.   拐 JLPT HSK 5 to kidnap/to shanghai, to turn, crutch, cane guǎi 扌 另 口 力 Left: hand 扌, right: another 另 (If it doesn't work with words 口, you have to try it with force 力: That's sth. different.) I feel a hand 扌 over my mouth 口 and a force 力 - I am kidnapped!   唯 JLPT HSK 5 only, alone, sole, -ism wéi 口 隹 Left: mouth 口, right: bird 隹 (A chorus of twittering birds is rare.) The mouth of a bird (sings) only alone.   哎 JLPT HSK 5 hey!, why?, look out!, How dare you! āi 口 艹 㐅 Left: mouth 口, right: phonetic "āi" 艾 (like AIDS 艾滋病) From the mouth an "āi" as interjection of surprise "hey!"   古 JLPT HSK 5 ancient, old, paleo- gǔ 古 口 Ten 十 and mouth 口. (古 was derived from the image of a skull, therefore the meaning of old. Helpful is also the image of a grave mound) Below the tomb stone is lying the 'old'.   咨 JLPT HSK 5 to consult, seek advice zī 次 口 Top: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠, what comes next?) (欠 = The yawning person 人 has a lack [of manners]), bottom: mouth 口 Next, use your mouth to consult.   塘 JLPT HSK 5 dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool táng 土 唐 广 口 Left: earth 土, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle 丨 and mortar 口 during Tang) If the earth is compacted by hand and pestle 丨 during the construction of the building so that a surrounding frame 口 is created, this is the dyke for an pond.   哲 JLPT HSK 5 wisdom, philosophy, wise zhé 折 口 Top: to break 折 (.. by hand 扌 or with an axe 斤), bottom: mouth 口 Even broken, the mouth utters wisdom.   嗓 JLPT HSK 5 throat, voice sǎng 口 又 木 Left: mouth 口, right: mulberry tree 桑 (Three hands 又 in the tree 木 harvesting its leaves for the silkworms.) The mouths when harvesting in the mulberry tree (are singing) with full throat.   嚏 JLPT HSK 5 sneeze tì 口 田 疋 正 Left: mouth 口, right: fall, stumble 疐 (Person 十 falling from a roof 冖 into a field 田, but correctly 正/疋) Out of the 'mouth' is falling sth., when sneezing.   吞 JLPT HSK 6 to swallow, drink, absorb tūn 天 口 Top: sky 天, bottom: mouth 口 Like from the sky and through the mouth, when: swallowing.   串 JLPT HSK 6 to string together, chain, to conspire chuàn 串 丨 口 Twice mouth 口 or pearl, a tread (or needle)丨 Two pearls on a string form a chain.   唤 JLPT HSK 6 to shout, to call huàn 口 奂 Left: mouth 口, right: great 奂 (shows a woman giving birth; better recognizable in the traditional: 喚 with: head ⺈, two emphasized breasts ハ and spread legs 人) The mouth of the woman giving birth is: shouting / crying.   呵 JLPT HSK 6 expel breath, (phonetic particle for "A"), my goodness kē, hē 口 可 Left: mouth 口, right: be possible/can 可 (here: open mouth 'J', where sth. ロ comes out) From the mouth that is open 'J' sth. comes ロ out, when expelling breath.   唇 JLPT HSK 6 lip chún 辰 口 Top: early-morning 辰 =image of plowing 辰 (At the field corner 厂 a first line 一 is plowed by the farmer 农.), bottom: mouth 口 Like plowed lines at the mouth are: the lips.   哦 JLPT HSK 6 oh (surprise), (interjection, when understanding) é, ó, ò 口 我 Left: mouth 口, right: I, me 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am myself.) The mouth of mine shouts "oh" when understanding.   哼 JLPT HSK 6 to groan, to snort, to hum, to croon, humph! hēng 口 亨 亠 了 Left: mouth 口, right: prosperous 亨 (Who makes big/high 高 things to accomplish 了 is prosperous.) [了 = The still arm-less 了 child 子 should be completed.] Out of the mouth 口 below the nose 亠, this mouth 口, comes out 了 a groan.   叹 JLPT HSK 6 sigh, gasp, exclaim tàn 口 又 Left: mouth 口, right: hand 又 The mouth should be (covered) with the hand, when: sighing.   喘 JLPT HSK 6 to gasp, to pant, asthma chuǎn 口 耑 Left: mouth 口, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而) The mouth is concentrated/focused: when gasping.   吟 JLPT HSK 6 recite, to moan, to hum yín 口 今 Left: mouth 口, right: now 今 (Put the cover into the corner フ Now!) The mouth will now start reciting.   咽 JLPT HSK 6 narrow pass, throat, pharynx, to swallow yān, yàn, yè 口 因 Left: mouth 口 (here: entrance, inlet), right: reason, cause 因 (For the fence 囗 around the tall person 大 is a reason.) The inlet defines (= is the reason for) a narrow pass such as: the throat.   吊 JLPT HSK 6 to hang up, hang a person, suspend (agreement) diào 口 巾 Top: mouth 口 (here: crane or winch), below: fabric/cloth 巾 The crane is using a fabric for hanging things and make them suspended.   啥 JLPT HSK 6 What?, dialectal equivalent of 什么 shá 口 古 Left: mouth 口, right: house, home 舍 (The particular cover under which I become old 古, is my home.) The mouth sees the home and asks: What?   咐 JLPT HSK 6 to order, instruct, command fù 口 付 Left: mouth 口, right: hand over, deliver 付 (... from a person 亻to a skillful hand 寸) By mouth handing over sth., namely: the order.   喉 JLPT HSK 6 throat, larynx hóu 口 侯 Left: mouth 口, right: marquis 侯 (The person 人 to whom another person ⺈ with an arrow 矢 bows down, is a marquis.) Also the mouth of a marquis ends in a throat.   呈 JLPT HSK 6 to submit, to petition, to show, to offer chéng 口 王 Top: mouth 口, bottom: king 王 The mouth at the kin is submitting a petistion - Or: A document 口 at the king is a submission / petition.   吁 JLPT HSK 6 silent, hush, shhh!, implore, whoa! xū, yù, yū 口 于 Left: mouth 口, right: in, at, to, from, 于 (= umbrella 伞, with a handle 亅 and keeps dry 干) A mouth as 'behind an umbrella' is: silent and hushes.   吼 JLPT HSK 6 roar or howl of an animal, bellow of rage hǒu 口 孔 子 乚 Left: mouth 口, right: dwellings, Confucius 孔 (A child 子 is kneeling 乚 in front of the hole Confucius used to live in.), here: Confucius 孔 as a variant of breast/milk 乳 A baby's mouth 口 that wants milk 乳 is roaring.   吉 JLPT HSK 6 lucky, giga- (meaning billion or 10^9) jí 口 吉 喜 Top: scholar 士, below: mouth 口 (This character is a simplification of happy 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy) The scholar's mouth wishes good luck.   嘱 JLPT HSK 6 admonish, to urge, to enjoin, to implore zhǔ 口 属 尸 Left: mouth 口, right: species, category 属 (It has buttock 尸, an accent ノ, so this insect 虫 with additional long legs 冂 is a special species.) (There are always the same troublemakers.) With the mouth this species shall be admonished.   啦 JLPT HSK 6 Sentence-final particle as exclamation lā, la 口 扌 立 Left: mouth 口, right: pull (string instrument) 拉 With my mouth, the hand 扌 and my standpoint 立 I make an exclamation at the sentence-final.   嚷 JLPT HSK 6 to shout, bellow, blurt out, be noisy rǎng 口 襄 Left: mouth 口, right: to help, assist 襄 (For covering 亠 both 口口 wells 井 with cloth 衣, I need help) When you use the mouth to get help, you need to shout.   喻 JLPT HSK 6 a metaphor, analogy, simile, allegory, to describe sth. as yù 口 俞 Left: mouth 口, right: to assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭]) The 'mouth' stands for 'assent'. This is a metaphor or analogy.   唐 JLPT HSK 6 to exaggerate, empty, in vain, Tang-Dynasty táng 唐 广 口 Outside: building 广, below: hand 肀, with pestle 丨, mortar 口 Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar were exaggerated in Tang China???   吩 JLPT HSK 6 oral instructions, to order fēn 口 分 Left: mouth 口, right: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces) The mouth is dividing (or sharing) when giving (oral) instructions.   啸 JLPT HSK 6 to hiss, to whistle xiào 口 隶 Left: mouth 口, right: respectful 肃 (here: hand grapping the tail 丨 of a four legged 灬 animal.) The mouth's sounded (when he seized the animal's tail) a hiss. (when it was caught 逮)   嘲 JLPT HSK 6 to sneer, ridicule to mock, twitter cháo, zhāo 口 朝 Left: mouth 口, right: morning, dynasty 朝 (sun 日 rises between plants 艹, moon 月) [Sunset is: 莫] The mouth that says at sunrise, that it was the moon, is: sneering me.   扣 JLPT HSK 6 button, buckle, to fasten, discount (money), to cover kòu 扌 口 Left: hand 扌, right: mouth 口 (here: buttonhole) With the hand at the buttonhole you can button or draw your discount.   嘛 JLPT HSK 6 modal particle indicating that sth is obvious ma 口 麻 Left: mouth 口, right: hemp 麻 (The building 广 in the forest 林 is for the hemp) (Proof of drug abuse) In his mouth he still had the hemp and so it was obvious.   哑 JLPT HSK 6 mute, (onomat.)dumb, hoarse, husky yā, yǎ 口 亚 Left: mouth 口, right: relatively weak 亚 (Put a plank 一 on the hollow volcanic vent 业 because is relatively weak.) A mouth that is rather weak is mute or hoarse.   哨 JLPT HSK 6 sentry, lookout post, a whistle shào 口 肖 Left: mouth 口, right: alike, resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.) (You do not need a strong body to sound the alarm:) He has a mouth, but only a small body: The sentry.   嘿 JLPT HSK 6 hey (exclamation of surprise) hēi 口 黑 Left: mouth 口, right: black 黑 (The underside of the cooking pot 里 is stained by fire 灬 black.) "Your mouth is black", he exclaimed in surprise.   哇 JLPT HSK 6 Wow!, sound of child's crying or of vomiting wā, wa 口 圭 Comprises: to vomit 吐 (From his mouth 口 to the ground 土 he disgorged his vomit) with an extra earth 土) [Or: heaps of earth 圭] To vomit on the ground sounds like crying or vomiting.   哗 JLPT HSK 6 clamor, noise, crashing sound huā, huá 口 化 十 Left: mouth 口, right: magnificent, flowery 华 (The change 化 makes it tenfold 十 as magnificent) It comes out of the mouth "magnificently", this is: clamor.   哄 JLPT HSK 6 roar of laughter, to deceive, to coax, disturbance hōng, hǒng, hòng 口 共 Left: mouth 口, right: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together.) The mouths together can roar in laughter (but also deceive).   鸣 JLPT HSK 6 twitter, to cry (of birds), resonance míng 口 鳥 Left: mouth 口, right: bird 鸟/鳥 (pictogram of a bird with claws 灬) The mouth of the bird is twittering.   君 JLPT HSK 6 master, lord, gentleman, ruler jūn 尹 口 君 Top: 尹 (A hand holding a stick ノ), below: mouth 口 The one with a stick in his hand strikes on somebody`s mouth, because he is: the master/lord.   叮 JLPT HSK 6 sting (mosquito, bee), to urge insistently dīng 口 丁 Left: mouth 口, right: nail 丁 A mouth like a nail is: the sting of a mosquito.   喇 JLPT HSK 6 sound of wind, trompet, horn lā, lǎ 口 束 刂 Left: mouth 口, right: 剌 (bundle 束 [Plants 木/禾 like sheafs of rice (cf. 兼), which are bound with a ribbon 口 as a bundle], knife 刂) From this "mouth" comes a bundle of cutting (sounds): The trompet!   嗅 JLPT HSK 6 to smell, to sniff, to nose xiù 口 自 犬 Left: mouth 口, right: smell/stink/smack 臭 (His ego 自 is like a dog 犬 that it stinks.) [犬 = The big 大 man holds it 丶 in his arms.] With open mouth the stink can be smelled.   叭 JLPT HSK 6 sound of trumpet, horn or sharp noise (gunfire etc) bā 口 八 Left: mouth 口, right: Bell 八 of the trumpet From a "mouth" that widens [towards the lower end] like an eight 八 comes the "sound of a trumpet".   嚼 JLPT HSK 6 to chew jiáo, jué 口 爫 皿 寸 Left: mouth 口, right: nobility 爵 (A hand 爫 takes the plates 罒(=皿) to serve food 食 skillfully 寸 to the nobility.) Also the mouths of the nobility chew.   喧 JLPT HSK 6 clamor, noise, deceitful xuān 口 宣 旦 Left: mouth 口, right: announce 宣 (At the roof 宀 [= highest point] with a first sun ray 一 the sunrise 旦 is announced.) When the mouth announces, it clamors.   噪 JLPT HSK 6 the chirping of birds or insects, noise, clamor, buzzing zào 口 品 喿 Left: mouth 口, right: to gather 喿 (3 beaks 口 [of birds] in a tree 木) The mouths of the gathered birds in the tree make a chirping.   哺 JLPT HSK 6 breast feeding, feed, eat bǔ 口 甫 Left: mouth 口, right: just now 甫 (Here: image of an upper body with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨 and a small baby 丶) The mouth at the upper body is breastfed.   咋 JLPT HSK 6 particle for question: Why? How? What?, to bite, loud zǎ, zé, zhà, zhā 口 乍 Left: mouth 口, right: suddenly 乍 (The saw 乍 fells [the tree] suddenly.) The mouth asks suddenly: Why?   叨 JLPT HSK 6 garrulous, prattle, to receive the benefit of dāo, tāo 口 刀 Left: mouth 口, right: sword 刀 The mouth cuts like a sword, when being: garrulous.   呕 JLPT HSK 6 vomit ǒu 口 区 Left: mouth 口, right: area, district 区 (here: open mouth 匚 with something 㐅 coming out) The mouth is open and sth. is coming out when vomiting.   呻 JLPT HSK 6 groan, moan shēn 口 申 Left: mouth 口, right: to say, explain 申 (A mouth 口 with a big "plus" + for the outgoing surplus when explaining.) The mouth just says: one groan.   咙 JLPT HSK 6 throat lóng 口 龙 Left: mouth 口, right: dragon 龙 (The outstanding, emphasized 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a dragon ノ) Like the mouth of a dragon appears his throat.   唾 JLPT HSK 6 saliva, to spit tuò 口 垂 Left: mouth 口, right: suspend/drop 垂 (A vehicle 車 with two further wheels, of which one is loose and almost drops off.) From the mouth drops the saliva.   嗦 JLPT HSK 6 suck suō 口 十 冖 糸 Left: mouth 口, right: 索 (ten 十, cover 冖, thread 糸) The mouth does this tenfold through a cover 冖 with a straw (= thread-like), to: suck.   缉 JLPT HSK 6 to seize, order or search to arrest sb. qī 糸 口 耳 Left: thread 纟/糸, right: 咠 (mouth 口, ear 耳) Like threads are the (inquiries) from mouths to ears when wanting to seize sb.   哆 JLPT HSK 6 tremble, quiver, to shiver (of cold) duō 口 多 Left: mouth 口, right: many 多 The mouth makes many (sounds) when trembling.   嗨 JLPT HSK 6 Hey!, Hi! hāi 口 氵 母 Left: mouth 口, right: ocean, sea 海 (Water 氵is in every 每 ocean. [every 每 = every person has a mother 母.]) A mouth like an ocean yells: Hey!   侃 JLPT HSK 6 upright and honest, cheerful, to talk smoothly kǎn 亻 口 川 Left: person 亻, right: mouth 口, river 川 (He talks a lot:) The person with a mouth like a river is: upright and honest.   啃 JLPT HSK 6 to gnaw, to nibble, to bite kěn 口 止 月 Left: mouth 口, right: to agree 肯 (Stop 止 that body 月 if you agree.) The mouth stops only, when from the body (everything) is: gnawed.   唠 JLPT HSK 6 to chatter, gossip, nag láo 口 艹 冖 力 Left: mouth 口, right: to struggle 劳 (To transform the growing plants 艹 into a flat top layer 冖 requires strength 力 and that you struggle.) For the mouth it is a struggle to chatter.   嘈 JLPT HSK 6 noisy, clamorous, bustling, tumultuous cáo 口 曹 Left: mouth 口, right: class/group 曹 (The seedlings 由 from the field 田 are tied-up 一 and put into baskets 日 for: classification) Sounds (= what comes out of the mouth) of the same class is considered to be noise.   咀 JLPT HSK 6 to chew, to masticate jǔ 口 且 Left: mouth 口, right: further/moreover 且 (=pile of stones, but here: a mouth wide open, with teeth at top and bottom and a central gap) The mouth is wide open when: chewing.   吝 JLPT HSK 6 stingy lìn 文 口 Top: language, culture 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.), bottom: mouth 口 A cultivated mouth can be stingy.   啰 JLPT HSK 6 (final exclamatory particle) luō 口 罗 网 夕 Left: mouth 口, right: to sift, chatty 罗 (With the net 罒 until the evening 夕 whe have to sift it.) A mouth that is chatty makes an exclamation.   唆 JLPT HSK 6 to instigate, incite, to stir up suō 口 夋 厶 夂 Left: mouth 口, right: to dawdle 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂) Mouth, nose, legs and an upturned foot: That shall instigate?   叼 JLPT HSK 6 to hold between the teeth, ...in the mouth diāo 口 刀 Left: mouth 口, right: wicked, artful 刁 (variation of sword 刀) In the mouth are teeth ⌝, which I use to hold something ノ.   哀 JLPT HSK 6 sorrow, grief, pity, to lament, to condole āi 哀 口 衣 Top and bottom: clothes 衣, center: a big hole 口 Clothes with a central hole causes: sorrow.   嗣 JLPT no HSK to inherit, succession (to a title), continuing a tradition sì 口 冊 司 Left: mouth 口, book/volume 冊 (bundle of bamboo writing tablets), Right: civil servant, administration 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口) (For its documentation:) You need a mouth or a document (last will) and an official (notary) for an inheritance.   囊 JLPT no HSK sack, purse, pocket (for money) náng 口 襄 Top & bottom: to help, assistance 襄 (For covering 亠 of both (two pieces 口) wells 井 with cloth 衣, I need help.), middle: mouth 口 (=enclosure) and roof 宀 It helps as an enclosing cover: The sack   咧 JLPT no HSK child's cry, draw back corners of mouth liē, liě 口 列 Left: mouth 口, right: row 列 (wicked 歹 [bar bone] is exposed with a knife刂 in a row [i.e. backbone]) If the mouth is (long as) a row: it is crying.   咯 JLPT no HSK (final particle when sth is obvious), to cough up gē, lo, luò, kǎ 口 各 Left: mouth 口, right: every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody) (This sound of) the mouth does everybody: coughing   愕 JLPT no HSK startled, astonished è 忄 咢 口 丂 Left: feelings 忄, right: jaw 咢 (two teeth 口, tongue 一, lower jaw 丂) The feeling with a jaw wide open is: being startled.   嘶 JLPT no HSK hiss, neigh, Ss! (sucked between the teeth, when hesitating or thinking) sī 口 斯 Left: mouth 口, right: this 斯 (A grain scoop 其 threshes like THIS axe 斤) The sound ("what comes out of the mouth") of a grain scoop or a axe is a: hiss or 'Ss!'   嗡 JLPT no HSK onomat. buzz (of bees), hum, drone wēng 口 公 羽 Left: mouth 口, right: elderly man 翁 (Publicly 公 wearing wings 羽 is sth. for elderly men) (A sound) as if from a mouth gets public by the wings, when: buzzing.   杏 JLPT no HSK apricot xìng 木 口 Top: tree 木, bottom: mouth 口 (The storage life is limited.) From the tree straight into the mouth: The apricot.   咕 JLPT no HSK mumble, mutter, murmur gū 口 古 Left: mouth 口, right: old 古 (originally: skull - better the image of a tomb stone) A mouth that became old, can only: mumble.   吱 JLPT no HSK (of mice) to squeak, (of small birds) to chirp /peep zī 口 支 Left: mouth 口, right: twig, support 支 (hand 又 that holds a twig 十) The sound (= "what comes out of the mouth") of twigs in a hand is like: a squeak   啪 JLPT no HSK (sound) bang pā 口 扌 白 Left: mouth 口, right: to slap, to pat 拍 (Blood circulatory disorder: The hand 扌 got white 白 by [rhythmic] slapping.) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of a slap is: bang!   哩 JLPT no HSK mile (=1,609 m), this (Cantonese) lī, li, lǐ 口 里 Left: mouth 口 (here: circumference), right: village, neighborhood 里 (Fields 田 and earth 土 belong to a village) The circumference of my village is: one mile.   嘻 JLPT no HSK laugh, giggle xī 口 喜 Left: mouth 口, right: to be happy 喜 (A scholar 士 with beans 豆 in his mouth 口 is happy.) When the mouth is happy, it is laughing.   嘟 JLPT no HSK toot, honk, to pout dū 口 者 ⻏ Left: mouth 口, right: entirely, capital 都 (The persons 者 from the village ⻏ come all to the capital.) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of the capital is the: toot.   嘎 JLPT no HSK cackling sound, creak, crunch gā, gǎ 口 頁 戈 Left: Mouth 口, right: 戛 (variation of: head, shoulder 頁 [= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一], halberd 戈) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when cutting off a head with a halberd is a: cackling.   喔 JLPT no HSK I see!, Oh! ō 口 尸 至 Left: mouth 口, right: building, house 屋 (His 尸 buttocks reaches 至 the building) The mouth like a building says: I see!   喃 JLPT no HSK mumble in repetition nán 口 南 Left: mouth 口, right: south 南 (It costs ten 十 Yen ¥, for the entrance 冂 towards the south 南.) The mouth is directed to the south (= downwards) when mumbling.   叩 JLPT no HSK to knock, to kowtow kòu 口 卩 Left: mouth 口, right: bent person卩 The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of a bent person is a knocking. (e.g. with the walking stick 丨 on the ground)   呐 JLPT no HSK battle cry, sentence-final particle nà, na 口 内 Left: mouth 口, right: inside 内 (The included 冂 person 人 is inside.) The mouth shouts: "I want to come inside!" as a battle cry.   哮 JLPT no HSK roar, bark (of animals), to pant xiāo 口 孝 耂 Left: mouth 口, right: filial obedience 孝 (... An old man 耂 with a stick/cane ノ teaches it to a child 子) The mouth with filial obedience: roars.   啼 JLPT no HSK to cry, to weep aloud, to crow, to hoot tí 口 帝 Left: mouth 口, right: emperor 帝 (Stand up 立 and cover 冖 yourself with cloth 巾, the emperor is coming.) The mouths will do it for the emperor: to cry and weep.   喀 JLPT no HSK sound of coughing or vomiting kā 口 客 宀 各 Left: mouth 口, right: guest 客 (Under the roof 宀 is everybody 各 sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 our guest) His mouth is covering 宀 everybody 各, when: coughing.   炯 JLPT no HSK bright, brilliant, clear jiǒng 火 冂 口 Left: fire 火, right: 冋 (here: wall 冂 with a window 口) A fire or a window can make it bright.   吾 JLPT no HSK I, my wú 口 五 吾 Top: five 五, bottom: mouth 口 Five times my mouth emphasized myself.   咚 JLPT no HSK boom (of a drum), a thumping sound dōng 口 冬 Left: mouth 口, right: winter 冬 (With an upturned foot 夂 on the ice 冫- it's winter.) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when sb. with an upturned foot is falling on the ice is: boom!   吴 JLPT no HSK area comprising southern Jiangsu wú 吴 口 天 Top: mouth 口, bottom: sky 天 A mouth above sky in Jiagsu.   吕 JLPT no HSK pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones lǚ 吕 口 Two mouths 口 as airholes of a flute.   嘘 JLPT no HSK exhale, hiss xū 口 虚 虍 业 Left: mouth 口, right void, emptiness 虚 (The tiger's 虍 hole 业 is void.) [业 = hollow volcanic vent] The sound (= what comes out of a mouth) from the tiger's hole is a: hiss.   窘 JLPT no HSK distressed, embarrassed jiǒng 穴 君 尹 口 Left: hole, cavity 穴 (It is covered 宀 and a narrowing path 八 leads into the cave), right: monarch/lord 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in a hand on a mouth 口) When you report about the hole to the lord, you are: distressed.   嚣 JLPT no HSK clamor, screaming, noise, rampant xiāo 口 頁 Four mouths 口, a head 页/頁 (with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Mouths screaming on all sides of your head, is a: clamor.   嗜 JLPT no HSK addicted to, fond of, preference, (word's end ...-phil) shì 口 老 旨 日 Left: mouth 口, right: old man 耆 (old, experienced 老 [old man 耂, sitting person 匕], sun 日) (He likes eating?) By the mouth has the old man his preferences: his addiction.   吭 JLPT no HSK throat, to utter háng 口 亢 Left: mouth 口, right: overbearing 亢 (The sturdy navigator 亢 known from navigation 航 with a broad neck and wearing a cap.) The noise (= what comes out of a mouth) an utter of the throat.   哟 JLPT no HSK Oh! (sentence-final particle expressing exhortation) yo 口 约 Left: mouth 口, right: contract, agreement 约 (The thread 纟 at the ladle 勺 reminds to the contract.) The mouth can (according to its contract) say "Oh!"   咦 JLPT no HSK expression of surprise: ah! oh! yí 口 夷 Left: mouth 口, right: barbarians 夷 (They have big 大 bows 弓: The barbarians) The exclamation (when viewing) barbarians is: ah! oh!   咒 JLPT no HSK incantation, magic spell, curse, malediction zhòu 口 几 Top: 2x mouth 口, bottom: table 几 Two huge eyes and a mouth 几 drawn down during: an incantation.   郡 JLPT no HSK county, canton, region jùn 君 尹 口 ⻏ Left: monarch, lord 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in the hand on a mouth 口), right: village ⻏ The lord and the village determine the county.   噜 JLPT no HSK grumble, chatter lū 口 鲁 魚 Left: mouth 口, right: stupid and clumsy 鲁 (Putting the fish 鱼/魚 in the sun 日 is stupid and clumsy.) The sounds (= what comes out of the mouth) of sb. clumpy is: a grumble.   粤 JLPT no HSK Cantonese, Guangdong 广东 yuè 口 米 丂 Top: container 口 with a handle 丶 and rice 米, bottom: winding seaweed 丂 Here's the island 口 Hong Kong, which became rich from rice 米, while the rest had only water plants 丂: the district of Canton.   唬 JLPT no HSK a tiger's roar, to scare, bluff, to intimidate hǔ 口 虍 Left: mouth 口, right: tiger 虎 = 虍 and (negotiating) table 几 The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) is a tiger's roar at the negotiating table, when scaring or bluffing.   呃 JLPT no HSK hiccup, hiccough, to cheat or dupe (Cantonese) è 口 厄 Left: mouth 口, right: distress 厄 (Below the cliff 厂 a crouching person 㔾 is in distress.) The mouth is distressed by a hiccup.   逞 JLPT no HSK to show off, to flaunt, to boast chěng 辶 口 王 Left: movement 辶, right: to submit/petition 呈 (With your mouth 口 at the king 王 to submit sth.) He is with movements and the mouth (= much talking) at the king to show off.   叱 JLPT no HSK to scold, shout at, to hoot at chì 口 匕 Left: mouth 口, right: sitting person 匕 With his mouth wide open, he is sitting and scolding.   叽 JLPT no HSK grumble jī 口 几 Left: mouth 口, right: table 几 The mouth is (big) as a table, when: grumbling.   唔 JLPT no HSK oh (expression of agreement or surprise), not (Cantonese) wú 口 吾 Left: mouth 口, right: I, my 吾 (Five times 五 my mouth 口 emphasized myself.) The mouth of mine makes: Oh!   喽 JLPT no HSK (final particle equivalent to 了) lóu, lou 口 娄 Left: mouth 口 (here: an empty field 田), right: collect 娄 (Rice grains 米 are by women 女 been: collected.) From the field 口/田 everything has been collected: We are at the end / finished.   咎 JLPT no HSK to blame, fault, to punish, calamity, misfortune jiù 夕 卜 口 Top: outside, foreign 外 (If you are in the evening 夕 [alone] at a fork 卜 in the road, you are: an outsider), bottom: mouth 口 An outsider's mouth blames you.   噬 JLPT no HSK to bite, to devour shì 口 竹 夹 Left: mouth 口, right: 筮 (bamboo 竹, witch 巫 [She's doing the work 工 of two persons 从], here: variant of: squeeze in 夹) (If its end is slit, you can get pinched in it.) Like a mouth, the bamboo can clamp/squeeze, thus: bite.   嚎 JLPT no HSK howl, bawl háo 口 豪 高 豕 Left: mouth 口, right: superior, heroic 豪 (The tall 高 pig 豕 is superior and heroic.) Out of the mouth of the tall pig comes a: howl.   嗤 JLPT no HSK laugh at, jeer, scoff at, sneer at chī 口 山 虫 Left: mouth 口, right: worm, ignorant 蚩 (below 一 the mountain 山, insect 虫) The mouth (sees), that the mountain is like one insect and: laughs (about the ignorant worm)   呜 JLPT no HSK onomat. for humming or whimpering wū 口 鳥 Left: mouth 口, right: crow, rook 乌 (variation of bird 鸟 (=鳥) The mouth of the eye-less bird is humming and whimpering.   垢 JLPT no HSK dirt, disgrace gòu 土 口 尸 Left: earth 土, right: empress, behind 后 (Originates in the custom that the empress followed behind the emperor. shows: buttocks 尸 with anus 口 for: "behind": The one following 'behind' is the empress.) What comes to the ground from the buttocks' anus, is: dirt.   吏 JLPT no HSK minor government official or functionary (old) lì 口 丈 Center: mouth 口; rest: big person 大 with wide lateral step measures length unit: zhàng 丈 (=3.3m) The person who measures with a wide lateral step and announces with mouth is a government official.   嘀 JLPT no HSK backbite dí 口 帝 古 Left: mouth 口, right: old emperor 啇 (mix of emperor 帝 [He stands 立 and is covered 冖 with cloth 巾] and is old 古) From the mouth of the old emperor: a backbite.   喳 JLPT no HSK twitter, chirp chā 口 木 旦 Left: mouth 口, right: examine 查 (For the trees 木 we need daylight 日 (after sunrise 旦) for examining them.) The mouths (= beaks) in the trees after sunrise are: twittering.   咪 JLPT no HSK sound to call cat mī 口 米 Left: mouth 口, right: rice 米 (The cats hunt in the rice because there are the mice:) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of the rice (= the barn) is a: miaow!   咄 JLPT no HSK aggressive, noise of rage, to cry out in anger duō 口 出 Left: mouth 口, right: to come out 出 (Two mountains 山 coming out one after the other) When the mouth 'comes out', you appear: aggressive.   咆 JLPT no HSK to roar páo 口 包 Left: mouth 口, right: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.) The mouth is like enwrapped, when: roaring.   噩 JLPT no HSK unlucky, bad, ill-omened, startling è 口 王 Four mouths 口 and in the middle: king 王 If four mouths (talk to) the king, he is: unlucky.   呛 JLPT no HSK to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way) qiāng, qiàng 口 仓 Left: mouth 口, right: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse) [Here: 㔾 as a slumped person] The mouth turns the person 人 into a slumped person 㔾 because he chokes (due to wrong swallowing)   吠 JLPT no HSK to bark fèi 口 犬 Left: mouth 口, right: dog 犬 (The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶) The mouth of the dog barks.   啄 JLPT no HSK to peck zhuó 口 豖 豕 Left: mouth 口, right: stabbed pig 豖 (but here: pig 豕 with some food ) The mouth of the pig sees between the legs some food and pecks it.   噗 JLPT no HSK heavy breathing, sound of escaping laughter, to water pū 口 业 兰 人 Left: mouth 口, right: thicket, tedious 菐 (In hollow 业 things the orchid 兰 grows and the person 人 takes it out of the: thicket) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when a tray 一 with things || is loaded onto a sheep 羊 that it goes to its knees 八 is a: heavy breath.   咏 JLPT no HSK to sing, to recite poetry, chant yǒng 口 永 Left: mouth 口, right: forever 永 (I emphasize 丶water 水 has been forever.) Out of the mouth, forever: reciting poetry.   呱 JLPT no HSK crying sound of child gū 口 瓜 Left: mouth 口, right: melon 瓜 (Image of a melon hanging from a frame.) The mouth is (open) like a melon, when: crying.   嗒 JLPT no HSK to despair, absent-minded tà 口 荅 合 Left: mouth 口 (here: container), right: 荅 (plant 艹, fit 合 (= The lid on the pot 口) Whether in the container was suitable for plants to fit makes him despair.   揖 JLPT no HSK to greet by raising clasped hands yī 扌 口 耳 Left: hand 扌, right: 咠 (mouth 口 and ear 耳) You clasp the hands, speak (= 口) and hear: when greeting.   嗔 JLPT no HSK to be angry at, to be displeased and annoyed chēn 口 真 具 Left: mouth 口, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table a tool] (The feeling of anger is often not fake:) The mouth is truly real when it is angry.   吆 JLPT no HSK to shout, to bawl, to yell (to urge on an animal) yāo 口 糸 Left: mouth 口, right: thread 纟/糸 Out of the mouth like (a single) thread: The shout.   哝 JLPT no HSK garrulous, mumble, to grumble, to mutter nóng 口 农 Left: mouth 口, right: peasant 农 (he wears a cover 冖 at the clothes 衣 [because he has to go out in any weathers]) The mouth of the peasant is garrulous.   嚓 JLPT no HSK sound of breaking or snapping chā 口 宀 祭 Left: mouth 口, right: investigate 察 (Due to the cover 宀 over the sacrifice 祭, we want to know what is sacrificed and that is investigated.) [祭 = The body 月/肉 is put by hand on the altar 示 as sacrifice] The sound (= what comes out of a mouth) must be investigated if it is a 'cracking sound'.   哧 JLPT no HSK sound of gasping, ripping or giggling chī 口 赤 Left: mouth 口, right: red 赤 (When earth 土 (clay) is burned 灬, the pottery turns red.) When his mouth is red, he is gasping.   喋 JLPT no HSK flowing flood, to chatter dié 口 枼 Left: mouth 口, right: 枼 (generation 世, tree 木) With his mouth he sits since generations in the tree and chatters like a flood.   迥 JLPT no HSK distant jiǒng 辶 冂 口 Left: movement 辶, right: 冋 (here: wall 冂 with a window 口) When watching a movement out of a window, it appears to be distant.   噶 JLPT no HSK phonetic: ga gá 口 曷 Left: mouth 口, right: interrogation 曷 (= The mouth with a tongue 曰 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of an interrogation is: ga.   哽 JLPT no HSK choke gěng 口 更 Left: mouth 口, right: further, more over 更 (The sun 日 goes with each unit of length 丈 further and more) [丈 = big 大 person with a wide step] If the mouth takes in even further more, it must: choke.   啧 JLPT no HSK to click one's tongue (in wonder or astonish) zé 口 责 Left: mouth 口, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean a responsibility.) The mouth with phonetic pronunciation 'zé' as used at: 'responsibility' stands for tongue-snapping.   吮 JLPT no HSK to suck shǔn 口 Left: mouth 口, right: to permit, to allow 允 (Who has a nose 厶 and legs 儿 shall be permitted.) The mouth permits to: suck.   哒 JLPT no HSK clatter (of horses' hoofs) dā 口 辶 大 Left: mouth 口, right: to attain, to reach 达 (Who wants sth. big 大 and moves/endevors 辶 can attain.) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) when you reach something is: the hoof's clatter.   嗖 JLPT no HSK whooshing sound, swishing, rustle of skirts sōu 口 叟 Left: mouth 口, right: old gentleman 叟 (leans with hands E, 彐 on stick 丨, which serves as 3rd hand 又.) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of an old man is: whooshing.   咔 JLPT no HSK (used as phonetic "ka") kā, kǎ 口 Left: mouth 口, right: to be stuck, blocked 卡 (from top 上 and bottom 下) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) with the pronunciation of 卡 is: 'kǎ'.   唧 JLPT no HSK to splash, pump water, to whisper, to mutter jī 口 艮 卩 Left: mouth 口, right: immediate, prompt 即 (Not good 艮, this person should bow 卩 down, immediately!) The mouth is not good, when during 'bowing down' sth. is: splashing out.   噢 JLPT no HSK Oh! (exclamation of surprise) ō 口 奥 Left: mouth 口, right: obscure 奥 (Under the roof 宀 is rice 米 in big 大 quantities, which is obscure) The mouth says "obscure", with the exclamation of surprise.   嗳 JLPT no HSK (interj. of disapproval), Oh, no! ǎi, ài 口 爱 Left: mouth 口, right: love 爱 (The hand 爫 that gives you a cover 冖 from above (i.e. a blanket?) is of the friend 友 who loves you.) The mouth shouts as a hand (hits) from above the friend's cover (= hat): No! Don't!   呸 JLPT no HSK to spit (in contempt), pah!, bah!, pooh! pēi 口 丕 不 Left: mouth 口, right: great 丕 (Here: not 不 and floor __) Out of the mouth it should not 不 come to the ground __, when: spitting out!   嗟 JLPT no HSK sigh jiē 口 差 Left: mouth 口, right: difference 差 (A sheep 羊 with a bent ノ leg and a craftsman 工: what a difference!) The sound [= what comes out of the mouth] of the sheep with the crooked leg at work was: a sigh.   噎 JLPT no HSK to choke (on), to choke up, suffocate yē 口 豆 Left: mouth 口, right: one (anti-fraud) 壹 (scholar 士, cover冖 & bean 豆) If something is in the mouth and covers with wide arms (= 士) like a bean, you have to choke.   呗 JLPT no HSK particle indicating necessity or obviousness bài 口 贝 Left: mouth 口, right: money 贝/貝 The mouth says it for money: That is obvious.   唷 JLPT no HSK (interjection expressing surprise): Oh!, Yo! yō 口 育 Left: mouth 口, right: give birth, educate 育 (The new born baby [=child 子 upside down, as head first at birth] has a body 月, that is born and raised.) The exclamation (= what comes out of the mouth) at a birth is: Oh!   喙 JLPT no HSK beak, snout, to pant huì 口 豕 Left: mouth 口, right: 彖 (mouth with pig 豕) A mouth and a pig's mouth stand for: beak, snout.
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