句

See also 可, and 旬

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 勹 + semantic 口

Han character

句 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心口 (PR), four-corner 2762₀)

1. sentence
2. measuring word or sentence

Derived characters

• 苟, 茍, 狗, 枸, 鉤, 駒, 佝, 拘, 跔, 笱, 玽, 鼩, 竘, 敂, 𦐛, 欨, 耇, 痀, 昫, 䅓, 邭, 𠛎, 朐, 鴝, 雊, 姁, 絇, 蚼, 䵶, 劬, 斪, 軥, 䣱

References

• KangXi: page 171, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3234
• Dae Jaweon: page 382, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 571, character 3
• Unihan data for U+53E5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

句 (Yale geui3)

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Japanese

Kanji

句 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Noun

句 (hiragana く, romaji ku)

1. phrase; clause; sentence; passage; paragraph; line; verse; stanza

Readings

• On: く (ku), こう (kō)

Compounds

• 句読点
• 語句

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Korean

Hanja

句 (hangeul 구, 귀, revised gu, gwi, McCune-Reischauer ku, kwi)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Hanzi

句 (pinyin jù (ju4), Wade-Giles chü⁴)

Compounds

• 句点
• 句读、句讀
• 句法
• 句号
• 句型
• 句子
• 句子成分
• 句鐘

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Vietnamese

Han character

句 (cú, câu, cấu)

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999