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嘴巴

zuǐ ba

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 张

嘴巴 (zuǐ ba) means "mouth; slap in the face". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 嘴巴 means

1. mouth
2. slap in the face

The characters in 嘴巴

• 嘴zuǐmouth; beak; nozzle
• 巴bāto long for; to wish; to cling to

Example sentences

• 汤姆是一个大嘴巴。
  Tāngmǔ shì yī gè dàzuǐba.
  Tom has a pretty big mouth.
• 张开嘴巴闭上眼睛。
  Open your mouth and close your eyes.
• 他张开了嘴巴说不出话来。
  Tā zhāngkāi le zuǐba shuōbùchūhuàlái.
  He was in open-mouthed amazement.
• 为什幺不让你的嘴巴休息呢？
  Why don't you give your mouth a rest?
• 来人，给我掌这贱女人嘴巴！
  Guards! Slap that vile woman's face!
• 如果我们应该少听多说话, 那么我们应该得到两个嘴巴一只耳朵才是。
  Rúguǒ wǒmen yīnggāi shǎo tīng duō shuōhuà, nàme wǒmen yīnggāi dédào liǎng gè zuǐba yī zhī ěrduo cái shì.
  If we were supposed to talk more than listen, we would have been given two mouths and one ear.

Words starting with 嘴巴

• 嘴巴子zuǐ ba zislap

Words containing 嘴巴

• 大嘴巴dà zuǐ babigmouth; blabbermouth
• 打嘴巴dǎ zuǐ bato slap
• 闭上嘴巴bì shang zuǐ bāShut up!
• 抽嘴巴chōu zuǐ bato slap
• 刀子嘴巴，豆腐心dāo zi zuǐ ba , dòu fu xīnlit. knife mouth but heart of bean curd; sharp tongue concealing a caring heart

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