口|くちkuchi[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N5approx.Common
Definitions
  1. nounmouth
    椅子いすに横よこたわる私に、歯科衛生士しかえいせいしの女性じょせいが「はい、お口くちを開あけてください」と言いったのです。↗
    The woman dental hygienist said to me, lying down in the chair, "Right, please open your mouth."
  2. nounopening; hole; gap; orifice
    私わたしたちはそのまま洞窟どうくつの口くちにボートで突っ込つっこんで行いきました。↗
    We plunged into the cave opening on our boat and continued on.
  3. nounmouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece
    瓶びんの口くちまでいっぱいに入いれて空気くうきが入はいらないようにしなさい。↗
    Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air.
  4. noungate; door; entrance; exit
  5. nounspeaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip)
    あの人ひとは口くちと腹はらが反対はんたいだ。↗
    He says one thing and means another.
  6. nountaste; palate
    外米がいまいはぼそぼそしていて、日本人にほんじんの口くちには合あわない。↗
    Foreign rice is hard and tasteless, and doesn't appeal to the Japanese palate.
  7. nounmouth (to feed)
  8. nounopening (i.e. vacancy); available position
    あの仕事しごとの口くちはまだあるよ。↗
    The job offer still stands.
  9. nouninvitation; summons
  10. nounkind; sort; type
  11. nounopening (i.e. beginning)
  12. suffix, countercounter for mouthfuls, shares (of money) and stove burners
  13. suffix, countercounter for swords, blades, etc.often read ふり in museum, etc. contexts
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym口腔こうこうWrittenWritten, formal medical term for the inside of the mouth, as in 「口腔ケア」; in everyday speech just say 「口」.
  • Related入り口いりぐちNeutralA place you enter through, as in 「駅の入り口」; the usual word for building entrances, while 「口」 mostly appears as a suffix.

For the mouth, 「口」 is the default. In the sense of an entrance it mostly appears as a suffix, as in 「改札口」 and 「登山口」. Use 「口腔」 in medical contexts and 「入り口」 for the entrance to a building or similar.

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Japanese definitions
  1. (くち)人間にんげんなど動植物どうしょくぶつが、飲食物いんしょくぶつを接せつ取とりするための穴あな状じょうに顔かおに開ひらいた器官きかんのこと。
  2. (くち)転てんじて、物もの・人ひとの出入でいり場所ばしょや、物ものを出し入だしいれする場所ばしょ。 例れい「登山とざん‐」・「戸と‐」
  3. (くち)転てんじて、物事ものごとの始はじめ。例れい「宵よいの‐」
  4. (くち)内側うちがわと外側そとがわの境さかいとなる場所ばしょ。
  5. (くち)物ものが入り込はいりこむ事ことがある所ところ。(就職先しゅうしょくさき・縁談えんだん先さきなど)
  6. (くち)ある物事ものごとをいくつかに分割ぶんかつしたうちの一部分いちぶぶん。例れい「一いち‐」
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