jù, gōu
sentence
Original meaning:
bent
口 represents the sound and 丩 represents the meaning and the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 句
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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sentence | ||
in a word | ||
sentence | ||
in other words | ||
full stop |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
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。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.152-153
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