Radical 口

3 strokes

This character means a person’s mouth, but also more generally the mouth of a cave or river, an entrance or exit of a building, etc. We will often use the mouth of a cave to represent it in stories.

This character is written, not with four strokes, but with three! For the second stroke, draw the top of the square from left to right, and continue down the right-hand side of the square, without taking your pen off the paper.

/ A large wheel stands across the mouth of the cold, dark cave, but Teddy simply puts on his duffel coat and hops between the spokes to get inside.