He spoke.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开口
to open one's mouth
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to open one's mouth
02
to start to talk
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开口 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开口 appears in 17 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Dead men tell no tales.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开口.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开口.
Directly before
- 无法开口2
- 懂得开口1
- 忍不住开口1
- 大开口1
- 时候开口1
Directly after
- 开口说话5
- 开口辩白1
- 开口要1
- 开口抱怨1
- 开口时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 开口
What does 开口 mean in Chinese?
开口 (kāikǒu) means to open one's mouth.
How do you pronounce 开口?
开口 is pronounced kāikǒu.
Is 开口 an HSK word?
开口 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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