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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

嘴里

zuǐlǐ

mouth

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

mouth

02

in the mouth

03

on one's lips

04

speech

05

words

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 嘴里 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 嘴里 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他嘴里一口方言。tā zuǐ lǐ yī kǒu fāng yán。

He speaks in a dialect.

汤姆在嘴里叼了根儿烟。tāng mǔ zài zuǐ lǐ diāo le gēn ér yān。

Tom had a cigar in his mouth.

嘴里有东西的时候不准说话。zuǐ lǐ yǒu dōng xī de shí hòu bù zhǔn shuō huà。

You must not speak with your mouth full.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 嘴里.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 嘴里.

Directly before

  • 我嘴里1
  • 你嘴里1
  • 他嘴里1
  • 在嘴里1

Directly after

  • 嘴里留下1
  • 嘴里有1
  • 嘴里融化1
  • 嘴里一口1
  • 嘴里叼1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 嘴里

What does 嘴里 mean in Chinese?

嘴里 (zuǐlǐ) means mouth.

How do you pronounce 嘴里?

嘴里 is pronounced zuǐlǐ.

Is 嘴里 an HSK word?

嘴里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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