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句

Phrase
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingク
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 5Level 18

Meanings

  1. phraseRtK
  2. clause
  3. sentence
  4. passage
  5. paragraph
  6. counter for haiku
  1. section (i.e. of text)

Synonyms

フレーズ慣用句

Homonyms

ⓘ
Same reading (く)
区 · ward

Popular Usage

句読点佳句

Radicals and components

Radical口mouth囗variant
Components
How it's built
句
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Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

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)
冗句じょうく
redundant phrase
甚句じんく
jinku
隻句せっく
a few words
引用句いんようく
quotation
下の句しものく
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

Stroke Order

5 strokes

Phrase. 勹 (wrapping) + 口 (mouth) — words wrapped into one complete phrase. 俳句 — haiku.Also known as “Paragraph”

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 句

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