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  *口* | 口* | *口
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
HSK 1
doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
crossing / intersection (of roads)
HSK 1
an exit / CL: 個|个 / to speak / to export / (of a ship) to leave port
HSK 2
population / people
HSK 2
entrance / to import
HSK 2
to import / imported / entrance / inlet (for the intake of air, water etc)
HSK 4
port / harbor
HSK 6
window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground
HSK 6
wound / cut
HSK 6
to use as an excuse / excuse; pretext
HSK 7-9
nick / jag / gap / shortfall
HSK 7-9
abstain from certain food (as when ill) / avoid certain foods / be on a diet
HSK 7-9
appetite / liking
HSK 7-9
to open one's mouth / to start to talk
HSK 7-9
tasty; to taste good
HSK 7-9
to praise without cease (idiom); praise sb to high heaven
HSK 7-9
to praise without cease (idiom); praise sb to high heaven
HSK 7-9
crossroads / intersection
HSK 7-9
breach / gap / breakthrough point
HSK 7-9
importation and exportation; import-export / access point; opening that serves as an entrance or exit
HSK 7-9
interface / port / connector
interface / port
Jiangkou, a county in Tongren 銅仁市|铜仁市, Guizhou
to scrape a meager living / to get by with difficulty
volcanic crater
Pukou district of Nanjing City 南京市 in Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏
(idiom) reluctant to speak about it / tight-lipped
Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
cave mouth / tunnel entrance
(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
chest
population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) / registered residence / residence permit / (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account
mountain pass
to let go of sth held in one's mouth / (fig.) to relent / to yield
incision / notch / slit / gash / margin of a page / trimmed edge (of a page in a book)
slang / argot / private language used as secret code
(of a watercourse) to breach its banks / (of a dam) to burst
pass / gateway / (fig.) juncture
(knitting, basket weaving etc) to cast off; to bind / (of a wound) to close up; to heal
wound; cut
air vent / drafty place / wind gap (geology) / tuyere (furnace air nozzle) / (fig.) hot trend / fad
estuary / the mouth of a river
mouth of a well
swear words / obscene language / foul language
Jingkou district of Zhenjiang city 鎮江市|镇江市, Jiangsu
Wudaokou neighborhood of Beijing
Dadukou, a district of Chongqing 重慶|重庆
variant of 糊口
to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food)
to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc) / to gape / to start talking (esp. to make a request)
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)
muzzle of a gun
one's own mouth / fig. in one's own words / to say sth personally
ferry crossing
socket (for an electric plug) / to interrupt (sb speaking) / to butt in
Qiaokou district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
to rinse one's mouth; to gargle
parallel port (computing)
Hang Hau (area in Hong Kong)
to be able to read aloud fluently / to be suitable (easy enough) for reading aloud
Hukou County in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi / Hukou township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan
area in the Shangcheng district of Hangzhou
open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
shut up / shut your mouth / stop talking
(idiom) to provide for one's family
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb
breach / split / rift / vent (volcanic crater)
bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey / fig. greedy exploiter / rapacious aggressor
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
appealing to the masses / universally appreciated (idiom)
entrepot / transit (of goods) / (coll.) to deny / to go back on one's word
(speak) without thinking the matter through
junction / fork in road
the edge of a knife / cut / incision
(idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth
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 and 媽媽|妈妈)
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)
pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts
collar / neckband / neckline / the place where the two ends of a collar meet
Linkou county in Mudanjiang 牡丹江, Heilongjiang / Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
a full mouth of (sth tangible) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly
cuff
hard to pronounce; awkward-sounding
animals used for their physical strength (mules, oxen etc) / beast of burden
fresh and tasty
dragged down by having a family to feed
Meihekou, county-level city in Tonghua 通化, Jilin
as if dumb / speechless
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
Dengkou county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia
at that moment / just then
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
tear or rupture / to have a tear (e.g. in one's clothes) / without restraint (e.g. of swearing)

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