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

kòu = k + ou4

old variant of 叩[kou4] / to knock

叩 = 卩 + 口 : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.

xǔ = xu + Ø3

chatter like old woman / cheerful

xu̅ = xu + Ø1

(literary) to blow or breathe upon / happy

ju̅ = ju + Ø1

(the name of a river to the east of Beijing) / Taiwan pr. [Ju4]

gǒu = g + ou3

basket for trapping fish

gǒu = g + ou3

old variant of 耇[gou3]

qú = qu + Ø2

yoke

hòu = h + ou4

grunting of pigs

qú = qu + Ø2

ends of yoke

gòu = g + ou4

crowing of pheasant

ho̅u = h + ou1

to snore / thirsty from excessively salty or sweet food / (dialect) very / extremely

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.