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| 口 U+53E3 |  Seal script |  Jinwen |  Jiaguwen | 𠙵 Semantic variant | 𠮚 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 口+ 0 strokes = 3 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.327#31 Kangxi: p.171#01 GSR: 110.a Hanyu: v1,p0566#14 |
| Composition: | Component of: 噴 𠮝 𠮞 𠮚 𠮙 中 𠮛 𠮜 𨙫 𠮪 叭 叮 𠮟 𫩐 𫩑 甴 台 𠮡 𬺺 叱 [More] |
| Mandarin: | kǒu ㄎㄡˇ |
| Cantonese: | hau2 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *kǒu |
| Shuowen: | 《口部》口：人所以言食也。象形。凡口之属皆从口。 |
| Guangyun: | 《广韵·上声·厚·口》口：《说文》曰：人所以言食也，亦姓今同州有之。苦后切，九。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·口部·口部》口：〔古文〕𠮚𠙵《唐韵》苦后切《集韵》《韵会》去厚切《正韵》苦厚切，𠀤𡨥上声。《说文》人所以言食也。象形。《易·颐卦》自求口食。《书·大禹谟》唯口出好兴戎。又戸口。《孟子》数口之家。《前汉·宣帝纪》胶东相成劳来不怠，流民自占八万馀口。又《李陵传》捕得生口，言李陵敎单于爲兵，以备汉军。又姓。《唐韵》今同州有之。《正字通》明弘治中，宣府通判口禄。又古口，复姓。《正字通》汉有古口引。又壶口，山名。《书·禹贡》冀州旣载壶口。又谷口，地名。《史记·范睢传》北有甘泉谷口。《注》九嵏山中西谓之谷口。又列口，县名。《前汉·地理志》乐浪郡，列口县。又《史记·仓公传》切其脉时，右口气息。《注》右手寸口也。脉经，从鱼际至高骨却行一寸，其中名曰寸口，其骨自高。又《韵补》苦动切，音孔。《释名》口，空也。空上声。又叶康杜切，音苦。《诗·小雅》好言自口，莠言自口。忧心愈愈，是以有侮。《前汉·沟洫志》且漑且粪，长我禾黍。衣食京师，亿万之口。《宋玉·风赋》侵淫溪谷，盛怒于土囊之口，缘泰山之阿，舞于松柏之下。下叶音戸。◎按唐韵正，口古音苦。引朱子韩文考异云：今建州人谓口爲苦，走爲祖。虽出俚俗，亦由音本相近，故与古暗合也。是直以爲口当读作苦，非止叶音矣。又叶恪侯切，音彄。《梁法云·三洲歌》三洲断江口，水从窈窕河傍流。 |
| Fanqie: | 苦后 (《广韵·上声·厚·口》) |
| Unihan definition: | mouth; open end; entrance, gate |
Example usage
| 《论语·公冶长》: | 御人以口给，屡憎于人。 |
| They who encounter men with smartness of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. | |
| 《孟子·尽心上》: | 百亩之田，匹夫耕之，八口之家足以无饥矣。 |
| The husbandmen cultivated their farms of 100 mu, and thus their families of eight mouths were secured against want. | |
| 《礼记·问丧》: | 恻怛之心，痛疾之意，伤肾乾肝焦肺，水浆不入口，三日不举火，故邻里为之糜粥以饮食之。 |
| In the bitterness of his grief, and the distress and pain of his thoughts, his kidneys were injured, his liver dried up, and his lungs scorched, while water or other liquid did not enter his mouth, and for three days fire was not kindled (to cook anything for him). On this account the neighbours prepared for him gruel and rice-water, which were his (only) meat and drink. | |
| 《孝经·卿大夫》: | 口无择言，身无择行。 |
| From their mouths there comes no exceptionable speech, and in their conduct there are found no exceptionable actions. | |
| 《扬子法言》: | 如将复驾其说，则莫若使诸儒金口而木舌。 |
| If they again harnessed up the cart, then nothing could be better than to make all ru to have metal mouths with wooden tongues. | |
| 《庄子·齐物论》: | 山林之畏佳，大木百围之窍穴，似鼻，似口，似耳，似枅，似圈，似臼，似洼者，似污者。 |
| Take the projecting bluff of a mountain forest - in the great trees, a hundred spans round, the apertures and cavities are like the nostrils, or the mouth, or the ears; now square, now round like a cup or a mortar; here like a wet footprint, and there like a large puddle. | |
| 《道德经》: | 五味令人口爽。 |
| The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste. | |
| 《商君书·垦令》: | 禄厚而税多，食口众者，败农者也。 |
| If salaries are liberal and consequently taxes numerous, then the large number of persons who live on others would mean ruin for agriculture. | |
| 《史记·夏本纪》: | 冀州：既载壶口，治梁及岐。 |
| He commenced his work in Jizhou at Pot's mouth, and regulated the country about the Liang and Qi mountains. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 清之而俞浊者，口也。 |
| 《说苑·修文》: | 丧事有賵者，盖以乘马束帛舆马曰賵，货财曰赙，水被曰襚，口实曰含，玩好曰赠。 |
| 《春秋繁露·离合根》: | 立无为之位而乘备具之官，足不自动而相者导进，口不自言而摈者赞辞，心不自虑而群臣效当，故莫见其为之而功成矣。 |
| 《韩诗外传·卷二》: | 樊姬掩口而笑 |
| 《大戴礼记》: | 孔子对曰：“所谓庸人者，口不能道善言，而志不邑邑。” |
| 《白虎通德论·礼乐》: | 夫歌者，口言之也。 |
| 《新书·劝学》: | 尝试傅白黛黑，榆铗陂，杂芷若，虻虱视，益口笑，佳态佻志，从容为说焉，则虽王公大人，孰能无悇憛养心，而巅一视之。 |
| 《新序·善谋下》: | 留侯曰：“此难以口舌争也，顾上有所不能致者，天下有四人，园公、绮里季、夏黄公、角里先生。” |
| 《中论·治学》: | 群道统乎己心，群言一乎己口。 |
| 《孔子家语·五仪解》: | 孔子曰：“所谓庸人者，心不存慎终之规，口不吐训格之言，不择贤以托其身，不力行以自定。” |
| 《潜夫论·贤难》: | 《诗》云：“无罪无辜，谗口敖敖。” |
| 《论衡·累害》: | 德鸿者招谤，为士者多口。 |
| 《太玄经·争》: | 次八，狼盈口，矢在其后。 |
| 《风俗通义·正失》: | 众口铄金，积毁消骨，久矣其患之也 |
| 《孔丛子·抗志》: | 卫君言计非是，而群臣和者如出一口。 |
| 《申鉴·杂言上》: | 下不钳口，上不塞耳，则可有闻矣。 |
| 《新语·辨惑》: | 謟佞之相扶，谗口之相誉，无高而不可上，无深而不可往者何？ |
| 《独断·卷上》: | 御者，进也，凡衣服加于身、饮食入于口、妃妾接于寝，皆曰御。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·独断》: | 御者，进也，凡衣服加于身、饮食入于口、妃妾接于寝，皆曰御。 |
| 《墨子·经上》: | 言，口之利也。 |
| 《列子·黄帝》: | 黄帝即位十有五年，喜天下戴己，养正命，娱耳目，供鼻口，焦然肌色皯黣，昏然五情爽惑。 |
| 《鶡冠子·道端》: | 富者观其所予，足以知仁，贵者观其所举，足以知忠，观其大𥘽，长不让少，贵不让贱，足以知礼达，观其所不行，足以知义，受官任治，观其去就，足以知智，迫之不惧，足以知勇，口利辞巧，足以知辩，使之不隐，足以知信，贫者观其所不取，足以知廉，贱者观其所不为，足以知贤，测深观天，足以知圣。 |
| 《文子·九守》: | 形骸已成，五藏乃形，肝主目，肾主耳，脾主舌，肺主鼻，胆主口，外为表，中为里，头员法天，足方象地，天有四时、五行、九解、三百六十日，人有四支、五藏、九窍、三百六十节。 |
| 《文始真经·四符》: | 耳、目、口、鼻、心之类。 |
| 《列仙传·马师皇》: | 后有龙下，向之垂耳张口，皇曰：“此龙有病，知我能治。” |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 不尚贤，贤谓世俗之贤，辩口明文，离道行权，去质为文也。 |
| 《韩非子·初见秦》: | 然则是赵举，赵举则韩亡，韩亡则荆、魏不能独立，荆、魏不能独立则是一举而坏韩、蠹魏、拔荆，东以弱齐、燕，决白马之口以沃魏氏，是一举而三晋亡，从者败也。 |
| 《慎子·逸文》: | 昔者，天子手能衣而宰夫设服，足能行而相者导进，口能言而行人称辞，故无失言失礼也。 |
| 《管子·轻重甲》: | 故夫握而不见于手，含而不见于口，而辟千金者，珠也，然后八千里之吴越可得而朝也。 |
| 《吴子·治兵》: | 天竈者，大谷之口。 |
| 《六韬·发启》: | 今彼殷商，众口相惑。 |
| 《尉缭子·攻权》: | 心既疑背，则计决而不动，动决而不禁，异口虚言。 |
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