"Lips" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 kǒu wěn tone of voice / connotation in intonation / accent (regional etc) / snout / muzzle / lips / protruding portion of an animal's face
 wěn the corners of the mouth / the lips
 zuǐ lǐ mouth / in the mouth / on one's lips / speech / words
 wǔ guān five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
 fēng kǒu to close up / to heal (of wound) / to keep one's lips sealed
 bì hé to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel) / to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit) / closed-loop
 chún shé argument / words / lips and tongue
 chuán sòng widely known / on everyone's lips
 zuǐ pí zi lit. lips / fig. glib talk
齿 chún chǐ lit. lips and teeth (idiom) / fig. close partners / interdependent
 nǔ zuǐ to pout / to stick out one's lips
 bā da (onom.) patter, splatter, click / to smack one's lips / to pull (on a pipe)
齿 chún chǐ xiāng yī lit. as close as lips and teeth (idiom) / closely related / interdependent
 zuǐ kuài to have loose lips
齿 chún wáng chǐ hán lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom) / fig. intimately interdependent
 shà xuè to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance (old)
 lu:2 chún bù duì mǎ zuǐ lit. a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (idiom) / fig. beside the point / incongruous
 zā to sip / to smack one's lips / to taste / to savor
 shà xuè wéi méng to smear the lips with blood when taking an oath (idiom) / to swear a sacred oath
 diǎn tóu zā zuǐ to approve by nodding one's head and smacking one's lips (idiom)
 dòng zuǐ pí to move one's lips / to wag one's tongue
 bā ji to smack one's lips
 bā ji bā ji (onom.) smacking the lips
 zhān chún to moisten one's lips / to sip (wine, tea etc) / esp. used with negatives: never touch a drop of the stuff
 mǎn zuǐ qǐ pào to have lips covered in blisters
齿 hào chǐ zhū chún white teeth and vermilion lips (idiom) / lovely young woman
 mó pò zuǐ pí zi to wear out one's lips (idiom) / to talk until one is blue in the face / to repeat again and again
 yǎo chún zhuāng bitten-lips look (darker lipstick applied on the inner part of the lips, and lighter on the outer part)
 kǒu xián tǐ zhèng zhí your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (borrowed from Japanese)
 kǒu xián tǐ zhí your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (four-character version of 口嫌體正直|口嫌体正直[kou3 xian2 ti3 zheng4 zhi2])
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