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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
couplet
affirmative sentence
to speak honestly (idiom)
rhetorical question
in other words
period (punctuation) / (fig.) endpoint / finish
subject-predicate sentence / subject-predicate clause
quatrain (poetic form)
sentence pattern / sentence structure / syntax
imperative sentence
sentence-making
verse / CL:
example sentence
aphorism
Jurong, a county-level city in Zhenjiang City 鎮江市|镇江市, Jiangsu
sentence
oft-quoted phrase; famous line
true negative (TN)
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
question (grammar) / interrogative sentence
(idiom) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion
simple sentence (grammar)
words / expressions / writing
declarative sentence
compound phrase
conditional clause
Goguryeo (37 BC-668 AD), one of the Korean Three Kingdoms
sentence pattern (in grammar)
exclamation / exclamatory phrase
to talk shop all the time (idiom)
imperative sentence
(linguistics) inverted sentence
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *句* | 句* | *句
variant of
haiku
(say) a few words
clause (grammar)
pearl of wisdom; quotable quote
clause (grammar)
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
words and sentences
clause
negative sentence
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
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
musical phrase
to polish a phrase
wh-question (linguistics)
one-word sentence
true affirmative (TA)
to search for the right word (of poet)
incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point


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