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开口

kāi kǒu

2-character word Traditional 開口

What 开口 means

1. to open one's mouth
2. to start to talk

The characters in 开口

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Example sentences

• 他开口了。
  He spoke.

Words starting with 开口

• 开口子kāi kǒu zia dike breaks; fig. to provide facilities (for evil deeds); to open the floodgates
• 开口成脏kāi kǒu chéng zāng(net slang) to use foul language (pun on 出口成章

Words containing 开口

• 狮子大开口shī zi dà kāi kǒu(saying) (fig.) to make an exorbitant demand; to ask for an outrageously high price