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The character "嘴" for mouth derives etymologically from the earlier character "觜", which specifically represented a bird's beak and supplied the phonetic basis for its modern form. Structurally, it integrates the mouth radical (口) with the component "觜", itself a compound of "角" and "此", to anchor its meaning in oral anatomy. While initially confined to describing the beaks of birds, its semantic range gradually expanded to denote the mouths of all animals and humans, and later by analogy to any mouth-like aperture, such as the spout of a container or the opening of a cave.
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他张开了嘴巴。
妈妈叫我闭嘴。
她的嘴很甜。
弟弟嘴馋想吃糖。
别用嘴吹气球。
他说话太快，我插不上嘴。
小猫用嘴叼着一条鱼。
她忍不住张嘴打了个哈欠。