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句

phrase
Stroke count: 5

Readings

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JōyōGrade 5

Popular Usage

句読点佳句

Radicals and components

Radical口mouthComponents

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
禁句きんく
taboo word; forbidden topic; words or phrases not allowed (in waka and haikai)
句集くしゅう
collection of haiku poems
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

Stroke Order

5 strokes

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