Kanji 口 — "Mouth"
Here is what 口 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Mouth" stick.
How it is read
こう, く
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
くち
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
You guessed it — Mouth the kanji and the component are identical!
- 口 Mouth
This square shape is a Mouth. When you see it, think of a mouth. It's a mouth that's wide open, telling you something.
Words that use 口
12 of 22 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 口 くち mouth
- 悪口 わるくち abuse, insult
- 出口 でぐち exit
- 閉口 へいこう shut mouth
- 裏口 うらぐち backdoor, rear entrance
- 口実 こうじつ excuse
- 口紅 くちべに lipstick
- 窓口 まどぐち (ticket) window
- 無口 むくち reticence
- 人口 じんこう population
- 火口 かこう crater (of a volcano)
- 利口 りこう clever, shrewd, bright
Want 口 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
