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句

jù

HSK 3 Character

What 句 means

1. sentence
2. clause
3. phrase
4. classifier for phrases or lines of verse

Other readings

句 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• gōuvariant of {勾|gōu}

Example sentences

• 此句有歧义
  Cǐ jù yǒu qí yì
  This sentence is ambiguous.
• 这句不对。
  This sentence is wrong.
• 我想写很多句子
  Wǒ xiǎng xiě hěn duō jùzi
  I want to write a lot of sentences.
• 这句话没意思。
  Zhè jù huà méiyìsi.
  This sentence doesn't make sense.
• 这是一个句子。
  This is a sentence.
• 这不是一句话。
  This is not a sentence.

Words starting with 句

• 句子jù zisentence
• 句型jù xíngsentence pattern (in grammar)
• 句式jù shìsentence pattern; sentence structure; syntax
• 句号jù hàofull stop; period (punct.)
• 句法jù fǎsyntax
• 句数jù shùnumber of sentences; number of lines (in verse etc)
• 句群jù qúndiscourse; group of sentences with clear meaning; narrative
• 句读jù dòupausing at the end of a phrase or sentence…
• 句首jù shǒustart of phrase or sentence
• 句点jù diǎnperiod (punctuation); (fig.) endpoint; finish
• 句容市Jù róng ShìJurong, a county-level city in Zhenjiang City 镇江市
• 句法分析jù fǎ fēn xīsyntactic analysis
• 句逗jù dòupunctuation of a sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)…
• 句骊河Jù lí Hépre-Han name of Liao River 辽河
• 句容Jù róngsee 句容市

Words containing 句

• 一句话yī jù huàin a word; in short
• 语句yǔ jùsentence
• 换句话说huàn jù huà shuōin other words
• 诗句shī jùverse
• 词句cí jùwords and sentences
• 字句zì jùwords; expressions; writing
• 造句zào jùsentence-making
• 名句míng jùoft-quoted phrase; famous line
• 绝句jué jùquatrain (poetic form)
• 警句jǐng jùaphorism
• 短句duǎn jùclause
• 复句fù jùcompound phrase
• 病句bìng jùill-formed sentence (esp. one containing grammatical or logical errors)
• 例句lì jùexample sentence
• 两句liǎng jù(say) a few words
• 分句fēn jùclause (grammar)
• 单句dān jùsimple sentence (grammar)
• 子句zǐ jùclause (grammar)
• 对句duì jùcouplet
• 从句cóng jùclause
• 断句duàn jùto pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing; to punctuate
• 乐句yuè jùmusical phrase
• 金句jīn jùpearl of wisdom; quotable quote
• 倒装句dào zhuāng jù(linguistics) inverted sentence

Characters that look like 句

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 白báiwhite; snowy; pure
• 勾gōuto attract; to arouse; to tick
• 匀yúneven; well-distributed; uniform
• 旬xún(bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month…
• 勿wùdo not
• 匆cōnghurried; hasty

Sounds the same

Read jù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 据according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on
• 具tool; device; utensil
• 距to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from; (bound form) distance…
• 剧theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute
• 拒to resist; to repel; to refuse
• 聚to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive); (chemistry) poly-
• 巨very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (colloquial) very; extremely
• 俱(literary) all; both; entirely; without exception; (literary) to be together…
• 惧to fear
• 锯a saw; to saw
• 足excessive
• 炬torch