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
- —曲刀curved sword (e.g. a scimitar, shamshir, etc.); curved blade
- —曲々winding; twisting; zigzagging
- —曲屁musical farting; making various amusing farting sounds
- —迷曲odd but interesting song
- —曲集collection (of musical pieces); studies; album; suite
- —撓曲flexure
- —神曲incredible song; great song
- —曲窪downwarp
- —元曲yuanqu (form of Chinese classical drama); Yuan drama
- —曲録round-backed chair used by a priest during a memorial service
- —外曲arrangement (of a traditional Japanese piece of music) for shakuhachi, kokyū, koto, etc.
- —曲赦special pardon to a specific region (in the ritsuryō system); limited amnesty
- —神曲Divine Comedy (poem by Dante); Divina Commedia
- —愛唱曲favourite song; favorite song
- —円舞曲waltz (composition)
- —間奏曲interlude; intermezzo
- —狂詩曲rhapsody
- —狂想曲capriccio; mania; wild excitement; frenzy
- —曲飲みdrinking while doing an acrobatic stunt; drinking in a strange manner
- —曲芸師acrobat; tumbler