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
- N3句Popularsection (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; idiom; expression; clause (e.g. in a database query language)
- N3文句Popularcomplaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
- N2俳句Popularhaiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
- N2句読点Popularpunctuation mark
- N1語句Popularwords and phrases; words
- N1佳句beautiful passage of literature
- —禁句Populartaboo word; forbidden topic; words or phrases not allowed (in waka and haikai)
- —句集Popularcollection of haiku poems
- —絶句Popularbeing lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
- —挙句Popularafter (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
- —節句Popularseasonal festival
- —慣用句Popularidiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase
- —美辞麗句Popularflowery words; rhetorical flourishes
- —文句なしPopularundisputed; entirely; perfect
- —一句phrase (verse, line); one haiku-poem
- —下句last part of a poem or Bible verse
- —句意meaning of phrase
- —句会gathering of haiku poets
- —句義meaning of a phrase
- —句作composing haiku poems