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曲

JLPT N3 SL3 6 strokes Frequency: #810

Meanings

Bend, Music, Melody, Composition, Pleasure, Injustice, Fault, Curve, Crooked, Perverse, Lean

Radicals

曰

Decomposition

⿻曰⿰丨丨

Etymology

Pictographic: A folded object 曰

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 vertical top-to-bottom

4 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left

5 horizontal left-to-right

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キョク kyoku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ま ma

くま kuma

Words Using This Kanji

280 words total

Other (20 words)

作曲さっきょく

composition (of music)

composer

composer

instrumental trio

tortuous or spiral (path)

序曲じょきょく

overture

新曲しんきょく

new (musical) composition

logistic curve

probability curve

sine curve

to bend

perversity

prelude

selection of music

all compositions

suite

hyperbola

sonata

sonata

songs with samisen accompaniment

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