曲 — bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean

Readings

On'yomi

キョク

Kun'yomi

ま.がるま.げるくま

Example words

• 曲きょくtune; piece of music
• 作曲さっきょくcomposition; setting (of music)
• 戯曲ぎきょくplay; drama
• 曲線きょくせんcurve
• 曲がるまがる(1) to bend; to curve; to warp; to wind; to twist (2) to turn (3) to be awry; to be askew; to be crooked
• 曲げるまげるto bend; to crook; to lean; to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle)
• 婉曲えんきょくeuphemistic; circumlocution; roundabout; indirect