Memory phrase for the character: 曲

曲

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Meaning

melody, bend, turn

Pronunciation

KYOKU
magaru

Explanation

 A field 田 with two growing plants II

Mnemonic
 
(In the wind) The plants in the field are bending. (Or: Two flutes 笛 play a melody.)

Radicals

曲 to bendThe two shoots || protruding high in the rice field 田 bend in the wind.
日 day, sunThe radical nichi stands for sun and was originally a circle with an middle point.




 Vocabulary

曲る まがる  to bend
作曲 さっきょく  composition, setting (of music)
曲線 きょくせん  curve
戯曲 ぎきょく  play, drama
曲げる まげる  to bend, to crook, to lean
婉曲 えんきょく  euphemistic, circumlocution, roundabout, indirect, insinuating

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