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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)

funeral march

impromptu

folk song

requiem

Requiem Mass

equal workmanship but different style

an incurve

noh song

dance music

musical dance

variation

arrangement

famous piece of music

夜曲やきょく

nocturne

夜想曲やそうきょく

nocturne

理非曲直りひきょくちょく

the rights and wrongs (of a case)

curve

to bend by twisting

perverseness

songs with samisen accompaniment

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