嘴
mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc); CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
16 strokes
Dict coverage rank #231 U+5634
How 嘴 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
口 (semantic, “mouth”) + 觜 (phonetic, zī)
How to remember it
orifice · Heisig RSH #1365
口 mouth + 此 this (literary) + safe
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 嘴
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有嘴无心 | yǒu zuǐ wú xīn | to talk without any intention of acting on it; empty prattle |
| 石嘴山市 | Shí zuǐ shān Shì | Shizuishan, prefecture-level city in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 x… |
| 嘴巴子 | zuǐ ba zi | slap |
| 大嘴巴 | dà zuǐ ba | bigmouth; blabbermouth |
| 石嘴山 | Shí zuǐ shān | see 石嘴山市[Shi2 zui3 shan1 Shi4] |
| 动嘴皮子 | dòng zuǐ pí zi | see 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dong4 zui3 pi2] |
| 嘴子 | zuǐ zi | mouth; beak; spout; mouthpiece |
| 动嘴皮儿 | dòng zuǐ pí r | erhua variant of 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dong4 zui3 pi2] |
| 光动嘴 | guāng dòng zuǐ | empty talk; mere rhetoric; palaver |
| 山嘴 | shān zuǐ | mountain spur |
| 牛头不对马嘴 | niú tóu bù duì mǎ zuǐ | see 驢唇不對馬嘴|驴唇不对马嘴[lu : 2 chun2 bu4 dui4 ma3 zui3] |
| 动嘴 | dòng zuǐ | to talk |
| 打嘴巴 | dǎ zuǐ ba | to slap |
| 嘴皮子 | zuǐ pí zi | lit. lips; fig. glib talk |
| 动嘴皮 | dòng zuǐ pí | to move one's lips; to wag one's tongue |
| 嘴里 | zuǐ lǐ | mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words |
| 打嘴 | dǎ zuǐ | to slap sb's face; to slap one's own face; fig. to fail to live up to a boast |
| 多嘴 | duō zuǐ | talkative; to speak out of turn; to blab; to shoot one's mouth off; rumors fly |
| 嘴巴 | zuǐ ba | mouth (CL:張|张[zhang1]); slap in the face |
| 大嘴鸟 | dà zuǐ niǎo | toucan |