曲 — music, melody, composition

きょく曲 music

きょく

U+66F2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #810 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1256 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

music
melody
composition
bend
pleasure
injustice
fault
curve
crooked
perverse
lean

Readings

On'yomi: きょく kyoku
Kun'yomi: ま ma くま kuma

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きょく kyoku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

曲(きょく) kyoku piece of music 作(さっ) 曲(きょく) sakkyoku composition 曲(きょく) 目(もく) kyokumoku musical selection 楽(がっ) 曲(きょく) gakkyoku musical composition 曲(きょく) 線(せん) kyokusen curve 名(めい) 曲(きょく) meikyoku famous piece of music 新(しん) 曲(きょく) shinkyoku new song 一(いっ) 曲(きょく) ikkyoku tune (melody, piece of music)

ま ma Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

曲(ま) がる magaru to turn 曲(ま) げる mageru to bend 曲(ま) がり magari curvature 曲(ま) がり角(かど) magarikado (street) corner

Words by frequency and grade

21 words

Each dot is a word containing 曲: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 8 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

ひ日 sun #72

廾 two hands

Used as component in (4)

のう農 agriculture てん典 code ゆたか豊 bountiful そう曹 office

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#73 曰 say