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口
口
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Translingual
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Han character
口 (radical 30 口+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 口 (R), four-corner 60000)
- Kangxi radical #30, ⼝ (“mouth”).
- Shuōwén Jiězì radical №22
Usage notes
This character (口) is used within characters; if a square is instead used as an enclosure (around) a character, then the character 囗 is used instead.
References
- KangXi: page 171, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3227
- Dae Jaweon: page 379, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 566, character 14
- Unihan data for U+53E3
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
口 | |
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| alt. forms |
𠙵 𠮚 |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 口
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (口) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 口 | *kʰoːʔ |
| 叩 | *kʰoːʔ |
| 扣 | *kʰoːʔ, *kʰoːs |
| 釦 | *kʰoːʔ |
| 筘 | *kʰoːs |
Pictogram (象形) – resembles an open mouth.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hau2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khiéu / héu
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): kheu (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄡˇ
- Wade-Giles: k'ou3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koou
- IPA (key): /kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hau2
- Yale: háu
- Cantonese Pinyin: hau2
- IPA (key): /hɐu̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiéu / héu
- Hakka Romanization System: kieu` / heu`
- Hagfa Pinyim: kieu3 / heu3
- IPA: /kʰi̯eu̯³¹/, /he̯u³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kháu
- Tâi-lô: kháu
- Phofsit Daibuun: qao
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaʊ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaʊ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaʊ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰaʊ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰaʊ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káu
- Tâi-lô: káu
- Phofsit Daibuun: kao
- IPA (Xiamen): /kaʊ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kaʊ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaʊ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kaʊ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaʊ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khó͘
- Tâi-lô: khóo
- Phofsit Daibuun: qor
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰɔ⁵³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰɔ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khió
- Tâi-lô: khió
- Phofsit Daibuun: qioir
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɤ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰio⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɤ⁴¹/
- Note: kháu - vernacular; káu - vernacular (limited, e.g. 啞口); khó͘/khió - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: kau2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kháu
- IPA (key): /kʰau⁵²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: kheu (T2)
- IPA (key): /kʰɜ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 口 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /kʰou²¹⁴/ |
| Harbin | /kʰou²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin | /kʰou¹³/ | |
| Jinan | /kʰou⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /kʰou⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /kʰou⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /kʰou⁵³/ | |
| Xining | /kʰɯ⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /kʰəu⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /kʰou⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /kʰɤu⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /kʰəu⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /kʰəu⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /kʰəu⁴²/ | |
| Kunming | /kʰəu⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /kʰəɯ²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | /kʰɯ²⁴/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /kʰəu⁵³/ |
| Pingyao | /kʰəu¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /kʰəu⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /kʰɤ³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /kʰɤ⁵¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /kʰø⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /kʰau³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /kʰiu³⁵/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕʰiu³¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /kʰəu⁴¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /kʰəɯ⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /kʰiɛu²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /kʰeu³¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /kʰeu³¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /hɐu³⁵/ |
| Nanning | /hɐu³⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /hɐu³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/kʰɔ⁵³/ /kʰau⁵³/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kʰau³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /kʰe²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰau⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/xɔu²¹³/ /xau²¹³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 口 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦后切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kʰəuX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʰəuX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kʰəuX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kʰəwX/ |
| Li Rong |
/kʰuX/ |
| Wang Li |
/kʰəuX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kʰə̯uX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
kǒu |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 口 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
kǒu |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ khuwX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰˤ(r)oʔ/ |
| English | mouth |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 口 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7490 |
| Phonetic component |
口 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
口 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰoːʔ/ |
Definitions
口
- mouth (Classifier: 把 c)
- entrance; opening; mouth (of an object)
- hole; cut
- government organ; department
- Classifier for family members, populations and guns.
- Classifier for bites or mouthfuls.
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 嘴 (“mouth”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 口 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 嘴 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 嘴 |
| Taiwan | 嘴 | |
| Tianjin | 嘴 | |
| Jinan | 嘴 | |
| Xi'an | 嘴 | |
| Wuhan | 嘴、嘴巴、嘴巴子 | |
| Chengdu | 嘴巴 | |
| Yangzhou | 嘴、嘴巴子 | |
| Hefei | 嘴 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 嘴、口 |
| Yangjiang | 嘴、口 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 嘴巴 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 嘴 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 嘴 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 嘴 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 嘴 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 嘴 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 嘴 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 嘴 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 嘴 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 喙 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 喙 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 喙 |
| Xiamen | 喙 | |
| Zhangzhou | 喙 | |
| Taipei | 喙 | |
| Kaohsiung | 喙 | |
| Chaozhou | 喙 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 嘴 |
| Wenzhou | 嘴、嘴嘴 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 嘴巴、嘴巴子 |
| Shuangfeng | 嘴巴 | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 口
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Japanese
Kanji
口
Readings
Compounds
Terms derived from 口
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 口 |
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くち Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
口 (hiragana くち, romaji kuchi)
References
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
- The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary. ISBN 0-19-860197-2
Korean
Hanja
口 • (gu)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 구 (McCune-Reischauer: ku)
- Name (hangeul): 입 (revised: ip, McCune-Reischauer: ip)
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Compounds
- 口訣 (구결, gugyeol)
References
Okinawan
Kanji
口
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /gut͡ɕi/
Noun
口 (hiragana ぐち, romaji guchi)
Compounds
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Vietnamese
Han character
口 (khẩu)
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