Keyword
phrase
- clause
- sentence
- passage
- paragraph
- counter for haiku
- Frequency
- #1244
- Strokes
- 5
- Grade
- 5
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 69
Readings
ク100%
Mnemonic
A plastic wrapper stretched over your mouth traps every word you speak, and each phrase bounces back inside, muffled and squeaky.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
敬respect拘constrain駒chess piece佝stooped over劬become tired呴breathe on姁beauty岣hill in Hunan怐foolish狗pup苟any昫warm枸quince tree欨to blow upon耇wrinkled face of the elderly痀crouch笱basket trap for fish, placed in the opening of a weir耈old age訽blame蒟devil's tongue (plant)鉤barb雊the crow of a male pheasant㺃a dog鴝mynah齁snore loudly齣a paragraph
Used in vocabulary
句
section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph; 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; …
Noun
絶句
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
Noun