漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
口: mouth
JLPT N43 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
3 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 人口じんこうpopulation
- 利口なりこうなclever
クku · on'yomi
- 口調くちょうtone of voice
- 異口同音いくどうおんsay something in unison
くちkuchi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 口くちmouth
- 入り口いりぐちentrance
- 出口でぐちexit [n.]
- 窓口まどぐちservice window (e.g. at bank)
- 悪口わるぐちslander, abuse
- 無口なむくちなreticent
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Resembles an open mouth.
Source: Wiktionary, 口 (rev. 93606013), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square!”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · kǒu
Same form: 口 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 口 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 口 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin kǒu most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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