mouthpiece; cigarette holder; filter tip
Refers to the part you put in your mouth, especially for smoking devices like a pipe or a cigarette holder; also used for the filter tip of a cigarette.
The mouthpiece of the pipe has gotten dirty.
fragrant soup garnish
A small piece of aromatic ingredient (like yuzu peel or mitsuba) floated on clear soup (吸い物) for fragrance and visual appeal.
See also: 吸い物
He uses a cigarette holder with a silver mouthpiece.
Float a yuzu fragrant garnish in the clear soup.
Standard spelling with okurigana.
Compact kanji spelling; 吸い口 is more common.
Formed from the continuative stem of 吸う “sip, inhale” and 口 “mouth, opening.” Its culinary sense denotes an aromatic garnish added to clear soup for the fragrance perceived while sipping.