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嘴 — mouth; beak; nozzle

mouth; beak; nozzle; spout

Pinyin
zuǐ
Strokes
16
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 嘴: 16 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

嘴 — 16 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 嘴 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 嘴zuǐmouth; beak; nozzle; spoutHSK 3
  2. 嘴巴zuǐbamouth; slap in the faceHSK 5
  3. 插嘴chāzuǐto interrupt; to butt in; to cut into a conversationHSK 7–9
  4. 咧嘴liězuǐto draw back the corners of one's mouthHSK 7–9
  5. 七嘴八舌qīzuǐ-bāshélively discussion with everybody talking at onceHSK 7–9
  6. 嘴唇zuǐchúnlipHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.