Chinese Radical: 口(mouth)
How would you draw it if you were asked to represent the mouth with the fewest lines possible? In Chinese, the character 口 represents the shape of the human mouth so the meaning of 口 is mouth. The two main functions of the mouth are eating and speaking. Therefore, most Chinese characters composed of it are related to mouth organs, speaking, and eating.
In general, every Chinese character has a certain meaning. But we often combine them with other Chinese characters to form compound words in daily usage. Let’s have a glimpse of characters containing 口 …
Words related to parts of the mouth
- 喉咙= Throat
- 舌= Tongue
- 嘴= Mouth (嘴 is used for colloquial language and focuses on its quality as a physical organ while口 is more formal and focuses on the function of the mouth.
Words related to vocabulary
- 唱= To sing
- 我爱唱歌。 I love singing songs
- 叹= To sigh
- 我叹气。 I sign.
- 喊= To shout
- 他在喊。 He is shouting.
- 问= To ask
- 他问我。 He asks me.
- 听= To Listen to
- 他听歌。 He listens to a song.
Words related to eating or other actions involving the mouth
- 喝= To drink
- 我喝水。I drink water.
- 吻= To kiss
- 她吻我。 She kisses me.
- 吃= To eat
- 我吃早餐。 I eat breakfast.
- 吐=To spit
- 他吐出早餐。He spits out breakfast.
- 吞= To swallow
- 他吞下很多食物。 He swallows a lot of food.
- 嗅=To sniff
- 他嗅自己的衣服。He sniffs his clothes.
After reading this article, could you guess what the word 言 means?