句

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sentence

HSK 2 N1

Communication →Language

jù

ク

구, 귀

口 represents the sound and 丩 represents the meaning and the sound.

Components

丩 connect+ 口 mouth =

句 sentence

丩 Meaning component

jiū connect

to join or connect the vine

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口 Phonetic component

kǒu mouth

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

句

Regular

Modern

Chinese

句 [gōu]

variant of 勾[gōu]

句 [jù]

sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse

Japanese

句く同音

noun

section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
linguistics phrase
verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
maxim; saying; idiom; expression
computing clause (e.g. in a database query language)

Korean

구 [句]

Noun

phrase; The unit of speech that forms part of a sentence by combining two or more words.; line; In traditional Korean three-verse poetry or narratives, a phrasal segment that serves as a unit for counting the number of syntactic words.

Example Sentences

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彼はその句の文字どおりの意味を説明した。

He explained the literal meaning of the phrase.

この句では前置詞を省略できる。

You can omit the preposition in this phrase.