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句

Mandarin · pinyin gōu#

Meanings · gōu

  1. variant of 勾 gōu
Mandarin · pinyin jù#

Meanings · jù

  1. sentence
  2. clause
  3. phrase
  4. classifier for phrases or lines of verse
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句
jù · sentence
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gau1 · geoi3 · ngau1

Cantonese word readings for 句. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character

  1. sentence; phrase
  2. Classifier for sentences.
  3. (Cantonese; formal in Hong Kong) Classifier for hours.

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to bend; to curve
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 鉤 /钩 (gōu, “hook”)
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to be polite and modest
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to arrest; to capture
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to examine
  6. (historical geometry) alternative form of 勾 (“the shorter leg of a right triangle”)
  7. a surname

character

  1. used in 句當／句当, alternative form of 勾當 /勾当
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 彀 (gòu, “to draw a bow”)
  3. a surname

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 絇 /𰬆 (jù, “a kind of shoe ornament or decoration”)

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