Japanese DictionaryDefinition of 培/meaning-of-口を利く
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (n) mouth
- opening; hole; gap; orifice
私たちはそのまま洞窟の口にボートで突っ込んで行きました。
We plunged into the cave opening on our boat and continued on. - mouth (of a bottle); spout; nozzle; mouthpiece
瓶の口までいっぱいに入れて空気が入らないようにしなさい。
Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air. - gate; door; entrance; exit
- speaking; speech; talk (i.e. gossip)
あの人は口と腹が反対だ。
He says one thing and means another. - taste; palate
- mouth (to feed)
- opening (i.e. vacancy); available position
- invitation; summons
あの仕事の口はまだあるよ。
The job offer still stands. - kind; sort; type
- opening (i.e. beginning)
- (suf, ctr) counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), and swords
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) Halla okadai (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- red mite (i.e. a chigger)
- (prt) indicates direct object of action
- indicates subject of causative expression
- indicates an area traversed
- indicates time (period) over which action takes place
- indicates point of departure or separation of action
- indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)