• 句読点くとうてん — punctuation marks
• 俳句はいく — haiku poem
• 文句もんく — phrase / complaint
• 語句ごく — words and phrases

句 is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) and the component 勹. It originally conveyed the idea of something enclosed or turned, and came to represent a unit of speech or writing — a phrase or clause.