Kanji1 / 3
口 kanji
mouth
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
コウク
Kun readings
くち
Words with 口
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鶏口牛後better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
- —閉口頓首being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer
- —金口木舌(public) opinion leader
- —蛇心仏口being cunning and spiteful, yet honey-tongued with feigned kindness
- —経口感染oral infection; orally transmitted infection
- —軟口蓋音velar; velar consonant
- —経口免疫oral immunization
- —口承文芸oral literature; folklore
- —前口動物protostome
- —旧口動物protostome
- —新口動物deuterostome
- —後口動物deuterostome
- —口語文法colloquial grammar; grammar of modern spoken and written Japanese
- —口承文学oral literature; folk literature
- —定住人口resident population
- —人口分布population distribution
- —交流人口nonresident population
- —戸口調査national census; door-to-door census
- —人口減少depopulation; falling population; decrease in population; population decline
- —口唇性格oral character (in psychoanalysis)