mouth; opening

From Lesson 9:Kanji 2·Japanese

Usages of mouth; opening

口くちkuti
mouth
possible
可

One hook in the mouth makes it possible.

tall; expensive
高

You're not tall enough to be unaffected by a sandstorm, so you need to put a lid on your mouth when entering the desert to avoid choking in the sand.

middle; inside
中

Above the middle of your mouth there's a line called the philtrum.

right
右

Putting a scissors in your mouth is not the right thing to do.

word
言

Only after a dot is pronounced by three mouths does it become a word.

tongue
舌

The tongue enables our mouth to tell a thousand tales.

language
語

When a set of words is spoken by at least five mouths, it has a right to call itself a language.

times
回

Enclosure and mouth are actually just two times the same kanji.

director
司

Your director was hooked in his one mouth.

flag
尸 component

This kanji looks just like a flag.

spine
呂

As you can see in this diagram, the slightly bent spine connects the mouth at the top of our body with the mouth at the bottom of our body.

name
名

In the evening, a mouth speaks your name.

口
mouth; opening
吸すうsuu
to smoke
suck
吸

In order to suck, you need to reach out with your mouth.

leather
革

Twenty-one mouths are needed to produce ten pieces of leather.

know
知

After you threaten to put an arrow through their mouths, your prisoners suddenly know all information you need.

older brother
兄

Your older brother is just a mouth on two legs.

capital
京

In the capital, they put a lid on your mouth to make it smaller.

old
古

Old people talk as if they have ten mouths.

入いり口ぐちiriguti
entrance
west
西

One mouth on human legs heads west.

Asia
亜

People in Asia eat by bringing two sticks to their mouth.

thing; matter
事
number
号

By using your mouth to count aloud, you can reach any number.

blow
吹

A mouth, when words lack, can still blow a trumpet.

fit
合

You assemble a mouth, but it doesn't fit into the face of the robot you're building.

stone
石
bean
豆
foot
足

A bolt of cloth starts wrapping you from your mouth all the way to your foot.

part
部

Stand up and open your mouth against the wall to get your part.

出で口ぐちdeguti
exit
history
史

Every mouth that tells history, bends and stretches it in its own way.

悪わる口ぐちwaruguti
insult; slander, speaking ill
salt
塩

After soiling your gun, you put your mouth against the dish to taste some salt.

any
苟

Grass can be wrapped by the mouth of any, but only some like it.

pedestal
台

Privately, you think no organ is more beautiful than the mouth. You put it on a pedestal.

separate
別

To separate your mouth from danger, you wrap your knife.

tanned leather
韋

With his five mouths, Wi chews animal hides into tanned leather.

Tang dynasty
唐

The Tang dynasty was a bunch of people living on a cliff scratching their mouths all the time.

grass eating husband
𦰩
each
各

Each winter, your mouth freezes.

人じん口こうzinkou
population
desert
冋

In the desert, it's as if your mouth is caught in an upside down box. Drinking water never comes from above, so you have to search for it below.

question
問

The gate has a mouth, it questions everyone who enters.

窓まど口ぐちmadoguti
(service) counter
valley
谷

In the valley, under a roof made of animal legs, lives a creature with a big mouth.

swallow
呑

When a calamity occurs, just use your mouth to swallow it.

occupy
占

Fortune tellers use their mouths to occupy all your time.

bundle
束

The trees look so tasty, your mouth starts to bundle saliva just looking at them.

marsh
㕣 component

You're in a marsh, and see eight fish mouths appear above the water.

consume
喫

Your mouth has pledged to consume everything it encounters.

chirp
鳴

With it's mouth, a bird chirps.

long kimono
袁

Long kimonos, from the soil to your mouth those clothes reach.

bureau
局

You get hooked in the mouth and are taken to a building with a flag in front of it. It's some kind of bureau.

dishonest
咼 component

Mouths in the desert are dishonest.

good luck
吉

A gentleman uses his mouth to wish you good luck.

circumference
周

With an upside down box on your head and soil in your mouth, you measure the circumference.

public chamber
堂

A public chamber is a piece of soil where both your mind and your mouth are welcome.

violet
菫 component

You see a violet in the grass while you work with your mouth full of soil.

blossom
咲

If you use your mouth to communicate, your relations will blossom.

call
呼

To call out is like a question mark from the mouth.

false
辟

You fought under a false flag and are punished by getting spicy stuff in your mouth.

cottage; hut
舎

A cottage and a hut are built directly on the soil, and have one roof and one opening.

amazed
呆

You are amazed by the fact that trees have mouths.

bite
噛

You use the teeth in your mouth to bite.

add
加

You add power to yourself by consuming things with your mouth.

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