(zuǐ) - mouth, spout, nozzle in Mandarin
zuǐTraditional: 嘴
Translation
mouth, spout, nozzle
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound combining 口 (kǒu, mouth) as the meaning element with 觜 (zuǐ) as the phonetic element.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 口 (kǒu, mouth) + 觜 (zuǐ, phonetic)
Stroke order
嘴
Examples
。
He opened his mouth and smiled.
硬，。
Stop being stubborn and admit your mistake.
壶。
The spout of the teapot is a bit chipped.
。
This child has a very sweet way of speaking.
捂，。
She covered her mouth to keep from laughing aloud.
嘴 (zuǐ) is the everyday word for mouth, and by extension any mouth-like spout or nozzle, as on a teapot. It appears in many idioms about speech, such as 嘴硬 (stubborn) and 嘴甜 (sweet-tongued).
Where this fits
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 嘴.
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