| 顺口溜 |
shùn kǒu liū |
popular piece of doggerel / common phrase repeated as a jingle |
| 顺 |
shùn |
to obey / to follow / to arrange / to make reasonable / along / favorable |
| 顺口 |
shùn kǒu |
to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food) |
| 口 |
kǒu |
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls |
| 溜 |
liū |
to slip away / to escape in stealth / to skate |
| 溜 |
liù |
swift current; rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled; proficient; (of movements) quick; speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings; neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster; to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) |