Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
句 began as a picture of two twisted ropes 丩, later written 勹, with 口 as a mark to tell it apart. That gave the meaning 'bent, twisted'. 口 also supplied the sound, and the modern sense 'sentence' came by sound loan, with no link to the shape.
Drawn as: two twisted ropes
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