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Mythic Mandarin

曲 (qū): meaning and stroke order

曲 (qū) means bent, crooked, wrong, surname Qu, variant of 曲.

曲

Simplified
曲
Traditional
曲, 麯, 麴
Pinyin
qū · qǔ

Stroke order of 曲

曲

  • Qū surname Qu
  • qū bent; crooked
  • qǔ tune; song
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 麯

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 曲

  1. qū
    • bent
    • crooked
    • wrong
  2. Qū
    • surname Qu
  3. qū Traditional 麯
    • variant of 麴|曲[qu1]
  4. qū Traditional 麴
    • fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc)
    • Taiwan pr. [qu2]
  5. qǔ
    • tune
    • song
    • CL:支[zhi1]

Radical and structure

曲
Radical 曰 (Kangxi radical 73) · 6 strokes · built from 口 and 卄

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 曲

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).