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嘴

zuǐ

HSK 2 · word 1234 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

张 zhāng or 个 gè

Example sentence

话在嘴边

huà zài zuǐ biān

It's on the tip of my tongue.

The character 嘴

嘴 is 口, a mouth, beside 觜 — the mouth as a part of a face, where 口 is the mouth as an opening. 嘴里 inside it, 闭嘴 shut it, and a bird's beak takes the same word.

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