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曲 (Kangxi radical 73,曰+2, 6 strokes,cangjie input廿田 (TW) or廿月金 (TBC) or難廿田 (XTW),four-corner5560₀,composition⿻曰⿰丨丨)

• 豊,農,𪨰,麯,𨀪,𨀲,㖆,浀,粬,蛐,𪜔

• 典,曹

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 502, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14280
• Dae Jaweon: page 873, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1484, character 2
• Unihan data for U+66F2

Historical forms of the character曲
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事) – a bent object. Also simplified from麴 via the variant character麯 /曲.

Unrelated to曹 and典.

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Where does the "song" sense come into this? How do we get from "bent" to "song"?”)

used in names of rivers

FromTibetanཆུ(chu,“river”).

to bend, bent, curved, crooked, wrong

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*kəwk(“bend, crooked, return, back, year”) (STEDT under PTB *(k/ʔ)uk). Cognate withTibetanའགུགས('gugs,“to bend”),Burmeseကောက်(kauk,“bent, curved, crooked”) (Hill, 2019). CompareProto-Mon-Khmer*gɔk(“be crooked, bent, lame”) (Schuessler, 2007).

mocking; ridiculing

From曲線／曲线 (qūxiàn).

曲

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 曲姓(Chinese)
• 曲氏(Cantonese)
• Khiok (oat-pêng)(Min Nan)

1. notstraight;bent
   1. twisting
   2. curved

      曲線／曲线  ― qūxiàn  ―  curve

   3. crooked
2. wrong; notright
3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly Internetslang)mocking;ridiculing;/s
4. asurname
5. Used in names ofrivers inTibet and surrounding regions.

曲

1. song

   歌曲  ― gēqǔ  ―  song

   曲調／曲调  ― qǔdiào  ―  melody

2. Qu (poetry)

• (song):

• (Qu):詞餘／词余 (cíyú)

• Middle Chinese:曲(khjowk)
  • → Old Uyghur:𐽷𐽳𐽶𐽷(kwyk/⁠küg⁠/,“song”)

• “曲”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. song,melody,composition
2. bent,curve
3. toturn, totwist
4. crooked

• Go-on:こく(koku)
• Kan-on:きょく(kyoku,Jōyō)
• Kun:まがる(magaru,曲がる,Jōyō)、まげる(mageru,曲げる,Jōyō)、くま(kuma,曲)、くせ(kuse,曲)

FromMiddle Chinese曲 (MC khjowk).

• (Tokyo)きょく[kyòkú] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2]
• (Tokyo)きょく[kyóꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [kʲo̞kɯ̟]

曲(きょく)• (kyoku) 

1. a piece ofmusic

• “^△曲”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

曲 (eumhun굽을곡(gubeul gok))

1. hanja form^? of곡(“bent;twisted;curved”)
2. hanja form^? of곡(“a piece ofmusic;tune”)

曲:Hán Việt readings:khúc (丘(khâu)六(lục)切(thiết))^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
曲:Nôm readings:khúc^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

1. chữ Hán form ofkhúc(“bent;curved”)
2. chữ Hán form ofkhúc(“piece;section;chunk;tune;song”)

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