5 strokes

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

On

Radicals

Common words

  • 文句もんく
    complaint, grumbling, objection, phrase, words, expression
  • 俳句はいく
    haiku, 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
  • 節句せっく
    seasonal festival
  • 句読点くとうてん
    punctuation mark
  • 慣用句かんようく
    idiom, set phrase, idiomatic phrase
  • 語句ごく
    words, phrases
  • 句集くしゅう
    collection of haiku poems
  • 美辞麗句びじれいく
    flowery words, rhetorical flourishes
  • 絶句ぜっく
    being lost for words, becoming speechless, jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
  • 字句じく
    wording, words and phrases, way of expression, token
  • 一句いっく
    phrase (verse, line), one haiku-poem
  • 句会くかい
    gathering of haiku poets
  • 決まり文句きまりもんく
    set phrase, stock phrase, conventional expression, usual wording, cliché, clichéd line
  • 連句れんく
    linked verse, couplet
  • 詩句しく
    verse
  • 名句めいく
    famous saying, noted haiku
  • 警句けいく
    aphorism, epigram, witticism, bon mots
  • 甚句じんく
    lively song, lively dance
  • 殺し文句ころしもんく
    clincher, pick-up line, honeyed phrase, telling phrase, phrase that brings someone around, esp. in personal relationships
  • 発句ほっく
    first 17-syllable verse of a renga, haiku, first five-syllable line of a tanka