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决口

jué kǒu

2-character word Traditional 決口

What 决口 means

1. (of a watercourse) to breach its banks
2. (of a dam) to burst

The characters in 决口

• 决juéto decide; to determine; to execute (sb)
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Sounds the same

Read jué kǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 角口(literary) to quarrel; also pr. jiǎo kǒu