曲 — bend, music, melody

きょく曲 bend

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

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.

Meanings

bend
music
melody
composition
pleasure
injustice
fault
curve
crooked
perverse
lean

word

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 編(へん) 曲(きょく) henkyoku arrangement (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

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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