亲嘴

親嘴
qīnzuǐ
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to kiss (on the mouth)
  2. 2 to smooch

Examples

HSK 2
Háizi shuì qián yào gēn māma qīnzuǐ.
Before sleep the child wants a kiss from mom.
HSK 7-9
Xiǎo qínglǚ zài gōngyuán lǐ qīnzuǐ.
The young couple kissed in the park.

Tips

register
Casual / colloquial, slightly childish or rustic. Most adults today say 亲 alone (亲一下) or the borrowed 接吻 for the formal/literary register. 亲嘴 is fine in family/dialect speech but rare in print.
mistakes
亲 by itself can be a shorter, softer way to say "kiss". 我亲了她 is more romantic-sounding than 我亲嘴了她 (which does not even take an object cleanly). 亲嘴 stays intransitive; for who-kisses-whom, switch to 亲.

Stroke Order

亲 qīn
嘴 zuǐ