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Matthews
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句 gōu sentence
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Chapter-33 HSK-A
5 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Chü was originally composed of 口 k'ou mouth and 丩 chiu to connect as phonetic, and meant crooked. It was pronounced chü and kou, for the latter sound 勾 being substituted later on, with diverging meanings. It is now classed under radical 勹. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
句
gōu
variant of 勾[gou1]
句
jù
sentence/clause/phrase/classifier for phrases or lines of verse
Phrases ending with the given character
主主zhǔ
谓謂wèi
句句jù
subject-predicate sentence/subject-predicate clause
倒倒dào
装裝zhuāng
句句jù
inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect)/anastrophe
反反fǎn
问問wèn
句句jù
rhetorical question
否fǒu
定dìng
句jù
negative sentence
命mìng
令lìng
句jù
imperative sentence
引yǐn
用yòng
句jù
quotation
感感gǎn
叹嘆tàn
句句jù
exclamation/exclamatory phrase
条條tiáo
件件jiàn
句句jù
conditional clause
独獨dú
语語yǔ
句句jù
one-word sentence
疑疑yí
问問wèn
句句jù
question (grammar)/interrogative sentence
祈qí
使shǐ
句jù
imperative sentence
肯kěn
定dìng
句jù
affirmative sentence
读讀dú
破破pò
句句jù
incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point
陈陳chén
述述shù
句句jù
declarative sentence