MOUTH    嘴口

ORGAN USED FOR ENTERING FOOD FOR EATING.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for the mouth is kǒu 口.
Modern Chinese Criteria
嘴巴 嘴 嘴子 嘴巴子 嘴岔 (dial) 口 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • BEAK　MOUTH of a BIRD. (anc: 4/0, child: 0)
Part of
Hypernym
  • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
  • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.24

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 300

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 255

    • Words (7 items)

    口  kǒu OC: khooʔ MC: khu 82 Attributions

    The standard word for the mouth is kǒu 口.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 腹/STOMACH The general term for the belly is fù 腹.
    • Assoc: 鼻/NOSE The standard word for the nose of both animals like pigs and bovines and humans is bí 鼻.

      Syntactic words
    • nmouth
    • n(post-N)the mouth of the contextually determinate NLZ
    • n(post-N.)adVinstrumentwith N's mouth
    • n[post-N]people's mouths, human's mouths, one's mouthCH
    • nabderivedthe dictates of the taste organs of the mouthCH
    • nadNoral
    • nadVfigurativeby word of mouth, orally
    • nadVplacein the mouth
    • npost-NN's mouthDS
    喙  huì OC: qhlods MC: hi̯ɐi 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nmouth of an animal, snout (only by extension and with strong rhetorical effect applied to men)
    • nadVby the use of a mouthCH
    • nfigurativebeak> stupid mouth
    • npost-NmetaphoricalN's beak>N's stupid mouthDS
    • n{PRED}post-Nhave the mouth/beak of an NCH
    口者  kǒu zhě OC: khooʔ kljaʔ MC: khu tɕɣɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialabstract: "the mouth"
    哈  hà MC: ngop OC: -- 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npost-V{NUM}.adNmouthfulCH
    脣口  chún kǒu OC: ɢljun khooʔ MC: ʑʷin khu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPmouth
    口頭  kǒu tóu OC: khooʔ doo MC: khu du 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPmouth
    嘴  zuǐ OC: tseʔ MC: tsiɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npost-Han: bird's beak; post-Tang: mouth