Kanji1 / 5
句 kanji
phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ク
Kun readings
NoneWords with 句
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —句節phrases and clauses
- —句点period; full stop
- —句読breaks and pauses (in a sentence); punctuation; way of reading (esp. kanbun)
- —句法conventions to be followed in composing Japanese poetry; phraseology; diction; rules of grammar and syntax when reading kanbun in Japanese
- —警句aphorism; epigram; witticism; bon mots
- —原句original passage (in document)
- —古句ancient expression; old poem
- —詩句verse
- —字句wording; words and phrases; way of expression; token
- —惹句catchphrase (esp. in advertising)
- —上句first part of a poem; first part of a verse
- —冗句redundant phrase; joke
- —甚句jinku; lively Japanese folk song or dance tune
- —成句idiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase; proverb; saying; quote; aphorism
- —単句simple phrase
- —中句middle part of the verse
- —倒句reading Chinese in the Japanese order
- —半句brief word
- —句々every clause
- —発句first 17-syllable verse of a renga; haiku; first five-syllable line of a tanka