mouth

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph depicting the mouth or an open mouth shape, reflecting the natural form of this body part.

Mnemonic: A simple square with a horizontal line through the middle looks like an open mouth speaking.

• 吧ba🔊

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 听tīng🔊

  to listen to; to hear

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 呀ya🔊

  (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 呃è🔊

  (exclamation)

  7 strokes

• 呆dāi🔊

  foolish; stupid

  HSK 5

  7 strokes

• 吻wěn🔊

  variant of 吻[wen3]

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 吹chuī🔊

  to blow

  HSK 2

  7 strokes

• 吵chǎo🔊

  to quarrel

  HSK 3

  7 strokes

• 员yuán🔊

  (bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity

  HSK 3

  7 strokes

• 呐nà🔊

  battle cry

  7 strokes

• 君jūn🔊

  monarch

  7 strokes

• 呗bei🔊

  modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm

  7 strokes

• 吼hǒu🔊

  to roar

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 呜wū🔊

  (onom.) for humming or whimpering

  7 strokes

• 吾wú🔊

  (old) I; my

  7 strokes

• 告gào🔊

  (bound form) to say; to tell

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 吞tūn🔊

  to swallow

  HSK 6

  7 strokes

• 吴Wú🔊

  surname Wu

  7 strokes

• 呈chéng🔊

  to present to a superior

  7 strokes

• 吨dūn🔊

  ton (loanword)

  HSK 5

  7 strokes

• 含hán🔊

  to keep in the mouth

  HSK 4

  7 strokes

• 否fǒu🔊

  to negate

  7 strokes

• 呛qiāng🔊

  to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 吽hōng🔊

  sound of a Buddhist incantation

  7 strokes

• 呕ǒu🔊

  vomit

  7 strokes

• 呎chǐ🔊

  foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)

  7 strokes

• 吕lǚ🔊

  pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system

  7 strokes

• 呒fǔ🔊

  perplexed

  7 strokes

• 吠fèi🔊

  to bark

  7 strokes

• 呇qǐ🔊

  star

  7 strokes

• 吱zhī🔊

  (onom.) creaking or groaning

  7 strokes

• 㕯nè🔊

  old variant of 訥|讷[ne4]

  7 strokes

• 吜chǒu🔊

  (onom.)

  7 strokes

• 吝lìn🔊

  variant of 吝[lin4]

  7 strokes

• 吟yín🔊

  to chant; to recite

  7 strokes

• 吡bǐ🔊

  used as phonetic bi- or pi-

  7 strokes

• 吣qìn🔊

  to vomit (of dogs and cats)

  7 strokes

• 吥bù🔊

  used for transcription in 嗊吥|唝吥[Gong4 bu4]

  7 strokes

• 吩fēn🔊

  used in 吩咐[fen1 fu5]

  7 strokes

• 吪é🔊

  move

  7 strokes

• 吭kēng🔊

  to utter

  7 strokes

• 吮shǔn🔊

  to suck

  7 strokes

• 启qǐ🔊

  variant of 啟|启[qi3]

  7 strokes

• 吰hóng🔊

  clang

  7 strokes

• 吲yǐn🔊

  used in 吲哚[yin3 duo3]

  7 strokes

• 吿gào🔊

  variant of 告[gao4]

  7 strokes

• 呋fū🔊

  used in transliteration, e.g. 呋喃[fu1 nan2], furan or 呋喃西林[fu1 nan2 xi1 lin2], furacilinum

  7 strokes

• 呏shēng🔊

  gallon

  7 strokes