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phrase

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Readings

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JLPT level: N1 Jōyō Grade 5

Meanings

phraseRtK
clause
sentence
passage
paragraph
counter for haiku

section (i.e. of text)

Synonyms

Popular Usage

Radicals and components

Radical口mouth 囗variant

Components

How it's built

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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bound up (乙) · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 69

Compound words

句読点くとうてん

punctuation mark

句集くしゅう

collection of haiku poems

禁句きんく

taboo word; forbidden topic; words or phrases not allowed (in waka and haikai)

語句ごく

words and phrases; words

絶句ぜっく

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

俳句はいく

haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

文句もんく

complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words

挙句あげく

after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)

節句せっく

seasonal festival

慣用句かんようく

idiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase

美辞麗句びじれいく

flowery words; rhetorical flourishes

文句なしもんくなし

undisputed; entirely; perfect

一句いっく

phrase (verse, line)

下句しもく

last part of a poem or Bible verse

警句けいく

aphorism

惹句じゃっく

catchphrase (esp. in advertising)

last part of a poem or Bible verse

常套句じょうとうく

conventional phrase

凄文句すごもんく

intimidating language

謳文句うたいもんく

catchphrase

Additional Examples

彼は文句無しの巨人だ。

He is altogether a giant.tatoeba

彼は部屋が蒸し暑すぎると文句を言った。

He complained about the room being too hot and humid.tatoeba

名詞を修飾するものは、形容詞または形容詞相当語句です。

Things that modify nouns are adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.tatoeba

彼は自分の部屋が狭いといつも文句を言っている。

He is always complaining of his room being small.tatoeba

濁点・句読点はない。

No voiced consonant marks or punctuation marks are used.wiki

以下は、代表的な流布テキストに句読点を施したものである。

Representative widespread texts that have additional punctuation marks are as follows:wiki

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