zuǐ ba
bouche
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他嘴巴很甜，会说话。
tā zuǐba hěn tián, huì shuōhuà.
He is sweet-mouthed and good at talking.
她嘴巴很厉害，能说会道。
tā zuǐba hěn lìhai, néng shuō huìdào.
She is very good at talking and can talk well.
我嘴巴很笨，不会说话。
wǒ zuǐba hěn bèn, bù huì shuōhuà.
I am not good at talking and can't speak well.
鼻子 (bízi)
nose
耳朵 (ěrduo)
ear
The Chinese word 嘴巴 (zuǐba) for "mouth" is composed of two characters: 嘴 (zuǐ) and 巴 (ba). The character 嘴 originally meant "beak" or "snout" and was used to refer to the mouths of animals. It is composed of the radical 口 (kǒu) for "mouth" and the phonetic component 隹 (zhuī), which is a bird radical. The character 巴 originally meant "to speak" or "to talk" and was used to refer to the human mouth. It is composed of the radical 言 (yán) for "speech" and the phonetic component 八 (bā). Over time, the two characters 嘴 and 巴 came to be used interchangeably to refer to the human mouth, and the combination 嘴巴 became the standard word for "mouth" in Mandarin Chinese.
