Chinese Character Wiki
句

jù, gōu

sentence

Original meaning: 

bent

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

Components
丩 sound,meaning component

丩  Sound Meaning component

jiū

  

join

口 sound component

口  Sound component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

句 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
句 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
句 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
句 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
句 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

句  

jù

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

句  

gōu

variant of 勾[gōu]

Most common words with 句
Freq.
Word
Meaning

句

sentence

一句话

in a word

句子

sentence

换句话说

in other words

句号

full stop

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

鉤

Sound component in 20 characters (6 verified)

齣 局 够 夠 狗 𱌮 拘 鉤 苟 駒 驹 枸 劬 笱 朐 岣 鸲 鼩 昫 竘

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤ(r)o

kuw

gōu

curved

*[k]ˤ(r)ok-s

kuwH

gòu

loan for 彀 draw a bow to the full

*[k](r)o-s

kjuH

jù

phrase


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 55.5342% of movies

848th most common character in movies

707th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+53E5

Shuowen

“句，曲也。从口，丩聲。”


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