Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N1
1244 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 句 【ク】 section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph, phrase, verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry), haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc., maxim, saying, idiom, expression, clause (e.g. in a database query language)
  • 区切り 【クギリ】 pause (in speech, writing, etc.), punctuation, break, end, (place to) stop, pause, milestone (e.g. in a project)
  • 絶句 【ゼック】 being lost for words, becoming speechless, jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
  • 慣用句 【カンヨウク】 idiom, set phrase, idiomatic phrase

Readings

Japanese names:
すく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju4, gou1
Korean:
gu, gwi

Spanish

  • frase
  • cláusula
  • sentencia
  • oración
  • párrafo

Portuguese

  • frase
  • cláusula
  • sentença
  • passagem
  • parágrafo

French

  • phrase
  • clause
  • paragraphe
  • passage
  • compteur de haïku
592 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
683 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
655 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1258 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
745 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
795 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1123 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
337 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
337 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
663 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
315 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3685 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1881 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2561 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
65 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3234 Morohashi
2967 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
693 New Nelson (John Haig)
65 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
69 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
650 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2549 2001 Kanji
3d2.13 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-3 SKIP code
2762.0 Four corner code
1-22-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e5 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
Variants:
tombstone, monument
Kun:
いしぶみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1792 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 碑 【イシブミ】 stone monument bearing an inscription (esp. memorial for future generations), stele, stela
  • 碑文 【ヒブン】 inscription, epitaph, epigraph
  • 詩碑 【シヒ】 monument (stele, gravestone, etc.) engraved with a poem
  • 慰霊碑 【イレイヒ】 cenotaph, memorial monument

Kun reading compounds

  • 碑 【いしぶみ】 stone monument bearing an inscription (esp. memorial for future generations), stele, stela

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei1
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • lápida sepulcral
  • mausoleo

Portuguese

  • lápide
  • monumento

French

  • pierre tombale
  • monument
1731 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1718 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3206 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1758 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1573 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1908 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1522 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1623 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1771 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1408 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1553 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
820 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1122 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1526 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24364P Morohashi
1213 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4028 New Nelson (John Haig)
1512 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1630 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1718 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3355 2001 Kanji
5a9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-9 SKIP code
1664.0 Four corner code
1-40-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7891 Unicode hex code