| term | pronunciation | English |
|---|
| 句 | く | phrase |
| 俳句 | はいく | haiku poetry |
| 文句 | もんく | complaint |
| 文句を言 | もんくをいう | complain |
| 句読点 | くとうてん | punctuation marks |
| 一句 | いっく | phrase (verse, line); one haiku-poem |
| 一句詠む | いっくよむ | to make up a haiku poem |
| 佳句 | かく | beautiful passage of literature |
| 冗句 | じょうく | redundant phrase |
| 句会 | くかい | gathering of haiku poets |
| 句集 | くしゅう | collection of haiku poems |
| 字句 | じく | wording, words and phrases, way of expression, token |
| 揚げ句 | あげく | in the end, finally, after all, at last |
| 桃の節句 | もものせっく | puppet festival (March 3rd) |
| 甚句 | じんく | lively song, lively dance |
| 絶句 | ぜっく | become speechless |
| 美辞麗句 | びじれいく | flowery words, rhetorical flourishes |
| 語句 | ごく | words, phrases |