KumiJi Glyph Explorer › Browse

句 = 口 + 勹

句 is a Japanese kanji written with 5 strokes, listed here under the keyword “phrase”. It is built from 口 (mouth) and 勹 (bound up). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 69. It appears as a component in 4 other characters in this index.

Keyword
phrase
RTK frame
69
Strokes
5
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ク
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
фраза, paragraph
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
句 sentence

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 口 mouth
  2. 勹 bound up

Characters that contain 句

How to find 句 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “mouth” + “bound up”. 句 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 句 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.