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JLPT N1 SL5 5 strokes Frequency: #1244

Meanings

Phrase, Clause, Sentence, Passage, Paragraph, Counter For Haiku

Radicals

口

Decomposition

⿹勹口

Etymology

Ideographic: A phrase 勹 from the mouth 口

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
2 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
4 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
5 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ク ku
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

162 words total
Other (20 words)
字句 じく

wording

中句 ちゅうく

middle part of the verse

上句 かみく

first part of a poem

冗句 じょうく

redundant phrase

甚句 じんく

jinku

成句 せいく

idiom

絶句 ぜっく

being lost for words

単句 たんく

simple phrase

倒句 とうく

reading Chinese in the Japanese order

桃の節句 もものせっく

Doll's Festival (March 3)

二の句が継げない にのくがつげない

to be at a loss for words

二の句 にのく

next (spoken) word

俳句 はいく

haiku

半句 はんく

brief word

美辞麗句 びじれいく

flowery words

文句 もんく

complaint

一言半句 いちげんはんく

a single word

挙句の果て あげくのはて

finally

挙句 あげく

after (a long process)

下の句 しものく

last part of a poem or Bible verse

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