| | mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls | HSK 1 |
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| | mouth / beak / nozzle / spout (of teapot etc) / CL: 張|张, 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... | HSK 3 |
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| | to keep in the mouth / to contain | HSK 4 |
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| | mouth (CL: 張|张) / slap in the face (CL: 個|个) | HSK 4 |
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| | spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic) | HSK 5 |
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| | kiss / to kiss / mouth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to open one's mouth / to start to talk | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid / (of skin, mouth etc) dry / (fig.) dull; dry; boring / (of timber etc) to dry out; to season; to cure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | different mouths, same voice / to speak in unison (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel | |
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| | to read silently / to mouth (the words of a prayer etc) / to say to oneself / to contemplate inwardly | |
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| | the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth | |
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| | to be thrilled / (of sb's mouth) to form a grin | |
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| | lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death | |
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| | to wash the face and rinse the mouth | |
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| | ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo | |
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| | to draw back the corners of one's mouth | |
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| | to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle | |
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| | to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth | |
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| | to open and close (the mouth etc) | |
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| | lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); to say what you think / honest and straightforward | |
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| | mouth ulcer | |
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| | to let go of sth held in one's mouth / (fig.) to relent / to yield | |
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| | to write in the style of some author / to write as if from the mouth of sb / a pastiche | |
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| | mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc) | |
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| | corner of the mouth | |
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| | to swear while talking; to be foul-mouthed | |
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| | estuary / the mouth of a river | |
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| | to kiss (on the mouth) | |
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| | mouth of a well | |
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| | the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth | |
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| | to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc) / to gape / to start talking (esp. to make a request) | |
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| | one's own mouth / fig. in one's own words / to say sth personally | |
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| | index finger / (literary) mouths to feed | |
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| | to rinse one's mouth; to gargle | |
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| | (interjection) oh! / (dialect) to stuff sth in one's mouth / (used in buddhist transliterations) om | |
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| | earthen jar with small mouth | |
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| | palate / roof of the mouth | |
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| | to spread (by word of mouth) | |
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| | shut up / shut your mouth / stop talking | |
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| | twisted mouth / wry mouth | |
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| | lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much | |
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| | basin / wide-mouthed jar or pot | |
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| | bit (of a bridle) / to hold in the mouth / to harbor (feelings) / to link / to accept / rank / title | |
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| | bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey / fig. greedy exploiter / rapacious aggressor | |
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| | beak / snout / mouth / to pant | |
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| | froth / foam (coming from the mouth) | |
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| | talkative / to speak out of turn / to blab / to shoot one's mouth off / rumors fly | |
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| | (literary) ancient earthenware container with a big belly and small mouth / (literary) brimming; abundant | |
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| | corner of the mouth | |
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| | (coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly) | |
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| | lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products / to masquerade as having an ability / token member of a group | |
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| | palate (roof of the mouth) | |
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| | (literary) (of a fish) to stick its mouth out of the water | |
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| | bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint | |
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| | a full mouth of (sth tangible) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly | |
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| | to stutter / to shut one's mouth / Taiwan pr. [yin2] | |
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| | lit. shut your mouth, move your legs (motto for losing weight) | |
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| | to open and close (the mouth etc) / friendly / compliant / Taiwan pr. [xi4] | |
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| | cave mouth / tunnel entrance | |
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| | mouth of a spring or fountain | |
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| | spurt out of the mouth | |
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| | to smooth hair with a wet brush / (of a mouth, wing etc) to close lightly / to sip | |
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| | roof of the mouth / to load a gun | |
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| | parched / dry mouth | |
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| | Trouble issues from the mouth (idiom). A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble. | |
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| | a full mouth of (sth physical) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) | |
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| | (literary) to put in the mouth | |
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| | glib / oily-mouthed and smooth talking | |
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| | to sing loudly / fig. to mouth slogans | |
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| | talkative / to blather / to shoot one's mouth off / rap (genre of music) | |
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| | mouth / beak / spout / mouthpiece | |
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| | lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped / reticent / not breathing a word | |
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| | move the mouth as in speaking | |
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| | to close (box, book, mouth etc) | |
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| | to open one's mouth / to start talking | |
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| | at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth | |
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| | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / (onom.) for the sound of the wind | |
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| | to convey orally; to pass on by word of mouth (instructions, information, stories etc) | |
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| | unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed | |
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| | to curl one's lip / to twitch one's mouth | |
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| | bloody mouth (from devouring freshly killed prey) | |
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| | mouth like a torrent (idiom) / eloquent / glib / voluble / have the gift of the gab | |
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| | to blurt sth out / to open one's mouth without thinking | |
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| | the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water | |
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| | gems or pearls formerly put into the mouth of a corpse | |
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| | to boast / to shoot one's mouth off | |
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| | muzzle (over a dog's mouth) | |
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| | hard to get one's mouth around / a tongue-twister | |
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| | to gossip and meddle / to shoot one's mouth off / talkative | |
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| | to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨 | |
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| | heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself / saying one thing but meaning sth different | |
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| | a mouth or opening | |
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| | awry (mouth) / askew / Taiwan pr. [kuai1] | |
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| | vase with a small mouth | |
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| | space between mouth and ears | |
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| | big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc) / open mouth / gulping / gobbling / gaping | |
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