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doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
crossing / intersection (of roads)
HSK 1
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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
population / people
HSK 2
an exit / CL: 個|个 / to speak / to export / (of a ship) to leave port
HSK 2
entrance / to import
HSK 2
to import / imported / entrance / inlet (for the intake of air, water etc)
HSK 4
window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground
HSK 6
port / harbor
HSK 6
wound / cut
HSK 6
tasty; to taste good
HSK 7-9
to open one's mouth / to start to talk
HSK 7-9
nick / jag / gap / shortfall
HSK 7-9
importation and exportation; import-export / access point; opening that serves as an entrance or exit
HSK 7-9
appetite / liking
HSK 7-9
to use as an excuse / excuse; pretext
HSK 7-9
to praise without cease (idiom); praise sb to high heaven
HSK 7-9
crossroads / intersection
HSK 7-9
abstain from certain food (as when ill) / avoid certain foods / be on a diet
HSK 7-9
breach / gap / breakthrough point
HSK 7-9
to praise without cease (idiom); praise sb to high heaven
HSK 7-9
pass / gateway / (fig.) juncture
to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc) / to gape / to start talking (esp. to make a request)
Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
cave mouth / tunnel entrance
chest
interface / port / connector
air intake vent
boarding gate
interface / port
to boast / to talk big
mouth of a well
crenel
trouser leg opening
artificial beard worn by Chinese opera actors
(speak) without thinking the matter through
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)
Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei
big mouthful (of food, drink, smoke etc) / open mouth / gulping / gobbling / gaping
(coll.) young married couple
Linkou county in Mudanjiang 牡丹江, Heilongjiang / Linkou township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
wound; cut
location on wrist over the radial artery where pulse is taken in TCM
appealing to the masses / universally appreciated (idiom)
to make a false countercharge
population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) / registered residence / residence permit / (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account
estuary / the mouth of a river
to be able to read aloud fluently / to be suitable (easy enough) for reading aloud
collar / neckband / neckline / the place where the two ends of a collar meet
Wudaokou neighborhood of Beijing
(road) intersection
pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts
to apply for residence / to register a birth
cuff
(idiom) to take all one's family along; encumbered by a family; tied down by family obligations
tiger's den / dangerous place / the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food)
volcanic crater
to let go of sth held in one's mouth / (fig.) to relent / to yield
area in the Shangcheng district of Hangzhou
open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
air vent / drafty place / wind gap (geology) / tuyere (furnace air nozzle) / (fig.) hot trend / fad
a full mouth of (sth tangible) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly
the edge of a knife / cut / incision
old married couple
stall / booth
to kill sb to prevent them from divulging a secret / to silence sb
open-mouthed (jar etc) / (of speech) freely / exposure (finance)
at that moment / just then
water outlet / drainage outlet
dragged down by having a family to feed
(idiom) to provide for one's family
to use one's mouth (to say sth)
Qiaokou district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
transient population / floating population
(idiom) reluctant to speak about it / tight-lipped
departure gate (aviation)
to retort / to answer back
ticket window
to correct oneself / to renege / to break one's word
to boast
rib collar / rib top of socks
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)
to one's taste / to one's liking
gas or air outlet / emotional outlet
to spit / fig. to spit out (a request, an agreement etc)
wound / open sore
to support one's family (idiom)
(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
(dialect) narrow mountain pass
(coll.) to keep sb in suspense / to tantalize / to keep on tenterhooks
(of a watercourse) to breach its banks / (of a dam) to burst
unreservedly / profusely
mountain pass
tear or rupture / to have a tear (e.g. in one's clothes) / without restraint (e.g. of swearing)
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator / a captive who can provide information

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