meaning
mouth, lips, throat, consuming orifice
semantic space · lipamanka
uta is a mouth or oral opening. astomatous objects do not have uta, but all other objects do. by using uta to describe something, you are framing it with all the connotations of an animal's mouth. the mouth of a venus flytrap could very easily be something else, but using uta for it emphasizes that it consumes. uta often create noises like vocalizations, so people tend to call voice chats and spoken language "toki uta."
pu definition
- NOUN mouth,lips, oral cavity, jaw
ku translations
mouth100 lip47 kiss44 jaw42 bite31 chew25
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
“mouth” with a dot below
by jan Sonja
jan Misali's "sitelen pona tan pu" font from 2016-09-06 depicts dotless uta. However, it is not considered the source of dotless uta today, as the font was and is essentially unknown, having only 11 downloads as of March 2025. Access the font here: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1315854/sitelen-pona-tan-pu
by Jack Humbert
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
👄
sitelen Emosi
👄
ucsur
U+F1970