The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N1

1244 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: ク

Composition: 勹口

句

Radical

Radical: 口

Reading: くち

Meaning: mouth, opening

Strokes: 3

口

Examples

Examples with audio

文句（もんく） phrase, complaint

慣用句（かんようく） idiomatic phrase

語句（ごく） words and phrases

俳句（はいく） haiku poetry

句読点（くとうてん） punctuation marks

句会（くかい） gathering of haiku poets

句集（くしゅう） collection of haiku poems

Onyomi Examples

句（ク） section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph, phrase, verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry), haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc., maxim, saying, idiom, expression

区切り（クギリ） punctuation, pause, juncture, end, (place to) stop

絶句（ゼック） being lost for words, becoming speechless, jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

慣用句（カンヨウク） idiom, set phrase, idiomatic phrase