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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

句: phrase, clause

Also: sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku

JLPT N15 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

勹 and 口 carry the meaning

5 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

クku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 文句もんくphrase, complaint
  • 慣用句かんようくidiomatic phrase
  • 語句ごくwords and phrases
  • 俳句はいくhaiku poetry
  • 句読点くとうてんpunctuation marks
  • 句会くかいgathering of haiku poets
  • 句集くしゅうcollection of haiku poems

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square!”
More in the 口 mouth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
勹

Also built on to wrap (勹)

All 8
口

Also built on mouth (口)

All 108

句 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ク

21 kanji share this on'yomiAll 21

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
句 phrase · 勹
vs兄 elder brother · 儿
句 has 勹 where 兄 has 儿.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jù

Same form: 句 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
句 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
句 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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