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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *句* | 句* | *句
sentence / clause / phrase / classifier for phrases or lines of verse
HSK 2
sentence / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
in a word; in short
HSK 5
period (punctuation) / (fig.) endpoint / finish
clause
quatrain (poetic form)
sentence-making
verse / CL:
example sentence
aphorism
words and sentences
in other words
sentence
oft-quoted phrase; famous line
question (grammar) / interrogative sentence
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing / to punctuate
full stop / period (punct.)
literal; word for word / word by word and phrase by phrase
syntax
pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used) / punctuation / periods and commas / sentences and phrases
(idiom) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion
simple sentence (grammar)
words / expressions / writing
musical phrase
affirmative sentence
declarative sentence
imperative sentence
compound phrase
conditional clause
couplet
Goguryeo (37 BC-668 AD), one of the Korean Three Kingdoms
Jurong, county-level city in Zhenjiang 鎮江市|镇江市, Jiangsu
sentence pattern (in grammar)
exclamation / exclamatory phrase
to talk shop all the time (idiom)
imperative sentence
to search for the right word (of poet)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *句* | 句* | *句
variant of
haiku
sentence pattern / sentence structure / syntax
(say) a few words
clause (grammar)
subject-predicate sentence / subject-predicate clause
clause (grammar)
(linguistics) inverted sentence
lit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom); fig. the serious hard work of writing
a line of verse / a sentence
defective sentence / error (of grammar or logic)
weighing every word
clause
negative sentence
pearl of wisdom; quotable quote
number of sentences / number of lines (in verse etc)
discourse / group of sentences with clear meaning / narrative
to speak one minute and be quiet the next
poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line
false affirmative
rhetorical question
to speak honestly (idiom)
syntactic analysis
punctuation of a sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used) / period 句號|句号 and comma 逗號|逗号 / sentences and phrases
start of phrase or sentence
pre-Han name of Liao River 遼河|辽河
quotation
to measure one's words
to polish a phrase
wh-question (linguistics)
one-word sentence
true negative (TN)
true affirmative (TA)
incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point


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