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Pinyin: kou [3rd sound]
Definition: mouth

This is a Pictographic Character, the word in the Oracle bone script (jia gu wen) and the Bronze engraving script (jin wen) are the picture of a human’s mouth. The Small seal script (Xiao Zhuan Shu) has become to wide hole, Both The Clerical script (Li Shu) and The Regular script (Kai Shu) have changed round shape to rectangular shape, so that the original shape has been changed.

 
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