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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)

曲がり尺まがりがね

carpenter's square

曲尺かねじゃく

carpenter's square (for checking angles)

roundabout road

to bend many times

to turn left

(sung) requiem

curvature

march

original song

chorus

elegy

wickedness

finale

Passion music

wedding march

secret music

(musical) canon

rondo

serenade

songs with samisen accompaniment

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