句

go̅u = g + ou1

variant of 勾[gou1]

jù = ju + Ø4

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

句 = 勹 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: a grammar nazi.

Zeus, the elephant and the grammar nazi are playing monkey in the bathroom's space station. The elephant uses its long trunk to hold the mandarin just above the grammar nazis head where he can't reach it, while Zeus laughs out loud.

句 character breakdown

句
- 勹
  - 丿
  - ㇆
    - 一
    - 亅
- 口

ba̅o = b + ao1

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

勹 = 丿 + ㇆ : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 句 as component

go̅u = g + ou1

bent / crooked

jǔ = ju + Ø3

Citrus medica

gǒu = g + ou3

Chinese wolfberry (Lycium chinense)

qú = qu + Ø2

(bound form, used in the names of various kinds of bird, esp. robins and redstarts)

jí = ji + Ø2

urgent

qú = qu + Ø2

labor

go̅u = g + ou1

see 佝僂|佝偻[gou1 lou2]

kòu = k + ou4

see 佝瞀[kou4 mao4]

gǒu = g + ou3

name of a hill in Hunan

xu̅ = xu + Ø1

breathe on / yawn / roar

Words with 句

haiku

in a word / in short

to talk shop all the time (idiom)

in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly

center-embedded relative clauses

subject-predicate sentence / subject-predicate clause

poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line

example sentence

inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect) / anastrophe

(linguistics) inverted sentence

a line of verse / a sentence

Sentences with 句

句 currently does not appear in any sentence.