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Kanji Information Sheet for 曲 (
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English: bend music melody composition pleasure injustice fault curve crooked perverse lean | On-Yomi: キョク | Kun-Yomi: ま.がる ま.げる まがた |
Bushu (Radical) Info:
| (ぼう) – rod
曰 (にち) – sun
| (ぼう) – rod
曰 (にち) – sun
Henshall Mnemonic: field has many bending paths
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #810 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #810 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
Click any individual kanji to view a similar information sheet for it.Click [K] to look up the word's individual character(s) at WWWJDIC.
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Click [Jisho] to look up the word at Jisho.org.
JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N3 Words
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
- 戯曲 [ぎきょく]
(n) play; drama [K] [D] [Jisho] - 婉曲 [えんきょく]
(adj-na,n) euphemistic; circumlocution; roundabout; indirect; insinuating [K] [D] [Jisho] - 曲 [きょく]
(n,n-suf) tune; piece of music [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 新曲 [しんきょく]
(n) new piece; new song [K] [D] [Jisho] - 曲目 [きょくもく]
(n) program; musical selection; tunes [K] [D] [Jisho] - 湾曲 [わんきょく]
(n) curve [K] [D] [Jisho] - 謡曲 [ようきょく]
(n) Noh song [K] [D] [Jisho] - 歌曲 [かきょく]
(n) melody; tune; song [K] [D] [Jisho] - 名曲 [めいきょく]
(n) famous music [K] [D] [Jisho] - 歌謡曲 [かようきょく]
(n) popular song [K] [D] [Jisho] - 組曲 [くみきょく]
(n) musical suite; musical selection [K] [D] [Jisho] - 曲がり [まがり]
(n) curvature; warp; bend [K] [D] [Jisho] - 曲がりかど [まがりかど]
(n) street corner; road turn [K] [D] [Jisho] - 一曲 [いっきょく]
(n) tune (melody, piece of music) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 協奏曲 [きょうそうきょく]
(n) concerto [K] [D] [Jisho] - 曲がり角 [まがりかど]
(n) street corner; road turn [K] [D] [Jisho] - 全曲 [ぜんきょく]
(n) all compositions; the entire composition [K] [D] [Jisho] - 交響曲 [こうきょうきょく]
(n) symphony [K] [D] [Jisho] - 序曲 [じょきょく]
(n) overture; prelude [K] [D] [Jisho] - 楽曲 [がっきょく]
(n) musical composition; tune [K] [D] [Jisho] - 曲折 [きょくせつ]
(n) windings; meanderings; complications [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.