Primary radical
曰 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 曲.
曰 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 曲.
曲 is decomposed as ⿻曰⿰丨丨.
Each square adds one stroke in the standard writing order.
HSK 5 · song
HSK 6 · surname Qu; bent; crooked; wrong; fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
HSK 6 · to bend; to curve around; curved; crooked; to wind; to warp
HSK 6 · Chinese opera
HSK 6 · musical composition
HSK 7-9 · music played during a movie, play etc; incidental music; music played in a theatrical interlude; (fig.) incident; episode
crooked, bent; wrong, false
曲 has 6 strokes. Follow the animated stroke-order sequence above, then practise it on the writing page.
曰 is the radical in 曲. It can provide a meaning-side clue.
歌曲 (gēqǔ): song; 曲 (qǔ): surname Qu; bent; crooked; wrong; fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]; 弯曲 (wānqū): to bend; to curve around; curved; crooked; to wind; to warp.