Kanji1 / 6
曲 kanji
bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
キョク
Kun readings
まがるまげるくま
Words with 曲
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —是非曲直rights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)
- —波乱曲折very involved and troublesome situation; complicated twists and turns
- —婉曲迂遠being euphemistic and circumlocutory
- —歌舞音曲singing, dancing and music; (public) entertainment; performing arts
- —正邪曲直right and wrong; right or wrong
- —長汀曲浦long stretch of winding beach
- —婉曲表現euphemism; euphemistic expression
- —二次曲面quadric surface
- —二次曲線quadratic curve
- —正則曲線regular curve
- —特性曲線characteristic curve
- —自由曲線freeform curve
- —曲技飛行acrobatic flying; aerobatics
- —作詞作曲songwriting (words and music)
- —走時曲線travel-time curve
- —脊椎湾曲spine curvature
- —曲がないconventional and uninteresting; stereotypical and boring; commonplace; unsociable; unfriendly; cold; indifferent
- —異曲同工different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes
- —舞文曲筆twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth
- —分布曲線distribution curve