句

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

• 佝, 坸, 拘, 呴, 岣, 狗, 泃, 怐, 姁, 駒 (驹), 玽, 枸, 昫, 朐, 胊, 眗, 竘, 袧, 蚼, 夠, 翑, 絇, 軥, 豞, 跔, 豿, 訽, 䣱, 鉤 (钩), 鮈, 鼩, 齁, 齣, 邭, 𠛎, 劬, 敂, 斪, 欨, 𦐛, 鴝 (鸲), 够, 雊, 䵶, 苟, 茍, 耇, 耈, 耉, 笱, 痀, 䅓

• KangXi: page 171, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30890
• Dae Jaweon: page 382, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 571, character 3
• Unihan data for U+53E5

Historical forms of the character 句
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo) : phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw) + semantic 口.

The 丩 component now resembles the unrelated 勹.

句

1. sentence; phrase
2. Classifier for sentences.

   他一共也沒說幾句話。 [MSC, trad.]
   他一共也没说几句话。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā yīgòng yě méi shuō jǐ jù huà. [Pinyin]

   He didn't say much. [lit. He didn't say many sentences.]

   一句「多謝」都冇 [Cantonese, trad.]
   一句“多谢”都冇 [Cantonese, simp.]

   jat¹ geoi³ “do¹ ze⁶” dou¹ mou⁵ [Jyutping]

   without even a word of "thank you"

句

1. ^† to bend; to curve
2. ^† Alternative form of 鉤／钩 (gōu, “hook”).
3. ^† to be polite and modest
4. ^† to arrest; to capture
5. ^† to examine
6. (historical geometry) Alternative form of 勾 (gōu, “the shorter leg of a right triangle”).
7. A surname​.

• (geometry): 股 (gǔ)

句

1. Used in 句當／句当, alternative form of 勾當／勾当 (gòudàng).
2. ^† Alternative form of 彀 (gòu, “to draw a bow”).
3. A surname​.

句

1. ^† Alternative form of 絇 (jù, “a kind of shoe ornament or decoration”).

• "冤句音义考" ["Yuānqú Yīnyì Kǎo", "An Inquiry into the Sound and Meaning of Yuanqu"], 《山东方志》 [Shāndōng Fāngzhì, Shandong Local Records], 山东省情网 [Shāndōng Shěng Qíng Wǎng, Shandong Provincial Network], Jinan: Shandong Provincial Archives, 2006. (in Chinese)
• Tian Miao's "A Formal System of the Gougu Method" in The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions, pp. 386–7.

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: く (ku, Jōyō); こう (kō)
• Nanori: すく (suku)

From Middle Chinese 句 (kju^H, “phrase”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) く​ [kúꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝ]

句 (hiragana く, rōmaji ku)

1. a short section from a longer text:
   1. a phrase or clause
   2. a sentence or line
   3. a passage or paragraph
   4. a verse from a song
   5. a stanza from a poem

句 (hiragana く, rōmaji -ku)

1. counter for stanzas from a poem or for haiku

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

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句 (câu, cú, cấu)

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