句 originally meant “bend” and has several different extended meanings. It has two pronunciations jù and gōu. Among all its meanings, the meaning of “sentence” is used most. 句 serves as a phonetic component to form characters.
句 is cognate with 勾。
The position of 句 in a character can be different:
On the left, for example, 够，邭，欨
On the right, for example, 狗，拘，驹
At the bottom, for example, 苟, 笱, 耇
At the corner, for example, 煦
Characters formed by the phonetic component 句
狗、
够、
煦、
苟、
拘、
驹、
鸲、
豿、
坸、
鼩、
跔、
耇、
蒟、
絇、
岣、
枸、
翑、
葋、
耈、
劬、
雊、
姁、
竘、
怐、
邭、
敂、
耉、
欨、
訽、
笱、
眗、
齁、
蚼、
軥、
痀、
呴、
泃、
佝、
昫、
鮈、
喣、
朐、
豞、