Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
810 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 曲 【キョク】 composition, piece of music, song, track (on a record), tune, melody, air, enjoyment, fun, interest, pleasure
  • 曲折 【キョクセツ】 bending, winding, meandering, zigzagging, ups and downs, twists and turns, complications, difficulties, vicissitudes
  • 歌謡曲 【カヨウキョク】 kayōkyoku, form of Japanese popular music that developed during the Showa era, (Western) pop song
  • 名曲 【メイキョク】 famous piece of music, excellent song, (musical) masterpiece

Kun reading compounds

  • 曲がる 【まがる】 to bend, to curve, to warp, to wind, to twist, to turn, to be awry, to be askew, to be crooked
  • 曲げる 【まげる】 to bend, to crook, to bow, to curve, to curl, to lean, to tilt, to incline, to slant, to bend (the truth), to distort, to twist, to pervert, to yield (a point), to depart (from a principle), to ignore (what one really thinks), to pawn
  • 隈 【くま】 corner, nook, recess, shade, shadow, dark area, dark circles (under the eyes), dark rings, bend (in a road, river, etc.), shading, gradation, kumadori, style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles

Readings

Japanese names:
まがた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qu3, qu1
Korean:
gog

Spanish

  • melodía
  • curva
  • encorvado
  • torcer
  • doblar
  • torcerse
  • girarse

Portuguese

  • tender
  • música
  • melodia
  • composição
  • prazer
  • injustiça
  • falta
  • curva
  • tortuoso
  • perverso
  • inclinar

French

  • courber
  • musique
  • mélodie
  • composition
  • plaisir
  • injustice
  • faute
  • malhonnête
  • pervers
  • pencher
381 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
279 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
261 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
604 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
103 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
715 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
609 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
327 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
366 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
367 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
625 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
996 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2197 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2956 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1180 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14280 Morohashi
3527 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2418 New Nelson (John Haig)
1172 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1256 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
264 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1976 2001 Kanji
0a6.27 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-2 SKIP code
5560.0 Four corner code
1-22-42 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66f2 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
Variants:
drink, smoke, take
Kun:
の.む-の.み
On:
インオン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
969 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飲 【イン】 drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol), drink, drinking party
  • 飲酒 【インシュ】 drinking alcohol
  • 暴飲 【ボウイン】 heavy drinking
  • 愛飲 【アイイン】 drinking habitually, being fond of (a drink)
  • 飲食 【インショク】 food and drink, eating and drinking
  • 飲酒 【オンジュ】 consumption of alcohol (as prohibited by one of the Buddhist precepts), Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol

Kun reading compounds

  • 飲む 【のむ】 to drink, to gulp, to swallow, to take (medicine), to smoke (tobacco), to engulf, to overwhelm, to keep down, to suppress, to accept (e.g. demand, condition), to make light of, to conceal
  • 飲む打つ買う 【のむうつかう】 drinking, gambling, and buying women in prostitution

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin3, yin4
Korean:
eum

Spanish

  • beber

Portuguese

  • beber
  • fumar
  • tomar

French

  • boire
  • fumer
  • prendre
351 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
250 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
230 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
935 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5159 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
489 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
100 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.14 Japanese for Busy People
323 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
323 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
132 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1903 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2127 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1111 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1510 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1486 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44063P Morohashi
1692 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6680 New Nelson (John Haig)
1474 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1584 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
388 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2862 2001 Kanji
8b4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-4 SKIP code
8778.2 Four corner code
1-16-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98f2 Unicode hex code