IDENTITY
嘴zuǐmouth
HSK 1Top 900
CORE MEANING
mouth
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.mouthHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 16
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰口觜
- mouth
- gives the sound zuǐ (historical)
USAGE
Common words
嘴巴zuǐbamouth
嘴唇zuǐchúnlips
Graded examples
你嘴巴怎么红了？Nǐ zuǐba zěnme hóng le?HSK3
Why is your mouth red?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 些
LEARNING
Memory aid
The mouth (口) marked by the old sound zī (觜) — zuǐ, mouth.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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