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曲

See also: 麹, 麯, and 典

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
曲-bw.png
simpl. 曲
trad. 曲/麯/麹

EtymologyEdit

Ideogram (指事) – a bent object. Earlier forms shaped more like a ‘U’.

Existed as traditional character, but also Simplified from 麯 (elimination of 麥) (elimination of 麥); also simplified form of variant 麹.

Han characterEdit

曲 (radical 73 曰+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿田 (TW), 廿月金 (TBC), X廿田 (XTW), four-corner 55600)

  1. crooked, bent
  2. wrong, false
  3. sheet music
  4. yeast, mold (fermenting materials for beer and wine) (as simplified character for 麯, 麹)

Derived charactersEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 502, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14280
  • Dae Jaweon: page 873, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1484, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+66F2

ChineseEdit

simpl. 曲
trad. 曲/麯/麹

PronunciationEdit

Middle Chinese pronunciation (曲, reconstructed)
Character (曲), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 溪 (29)
Final: 燭
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Checked (Ø)

 Fanqie: 丘玉切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɨok̚/ /kʰi̯wok̚/ /kʰiok̚/ /kʰiok̚/ /kʰuawk̚/ /kʰĭwok̚/ /kʰiok̚/
Old Chinese pronunciation (曲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
曲 qū ‹ khjowk › /*kʰ(r)ok/ to bend

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
曲 10578 曲 屋 0 曲 /*kʰoɡ/

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

曲

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

NounEdit

曲 (hiragana きょく, romaji kyoku)

  1. a piece of music

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

曲 (gok) (hangeul 곡, revised gok, McCune-Reischauer kok, Yale kok)

  1. bent, crooked
  2. false, wrong
  3. a piece of music

CompoundsEdit

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

曲 (khúc)

  1. Being bent;
  2. A bend, bent object(s), bent and/or tight places (鄉曲: small/tiny rural area/village)
  3. Being flexible. 曲為之說: apologize for other people in a fluent way.
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