曲

Stroke order

EtymologyEdit

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

Existed as traditional character, but also Simplified from 麯 (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

• 豊 農 麯

See alsoEdit

• 典 曹

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

HanziEdit

曲 (Jyutping kuk1, Yale kuk1)

KanjiEdit

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• On: きょく (kyoku)
• Kun: まがる (magaru), まげる (mageru), くま (kuma)

CompoundsEdit

• 曲解
• 曲技
• 曲芸
• 曲射
• 曲折
• 曲面
• 曲目
• 曲論
• 曲者

NounEdit

曲 (hiragana きょく, romaji kyoku)

1. a piece of music

HanjaEdit

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

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

CompoundsEdit

HanziEdit

曲 (Pinyin qū (qu1), qǔ (qu3), Wade-Giles ch'ü¹, ch'ü³)

CompoundsEdit

Han characterEdit

曲 (*kiok)

Han characterEdit

曲 (khúc)