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HSK
musical composition
HSK 6
song
HSK 5
Chinese opera
HSK 6
to distort / to misrepresent
HSK 7-9
to twist / to warp / to distort
HSK 7-9
winding / (fig.) complicated
HSK 7-9
crooked
to compose (music)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁
medicated leaven (used in TCM to treat indigestion)
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
Shanghai opera / same as 滬劇|沪剧
hyperboloid of one sheet (math.)
hand drill with a crank handle
to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
HSK 6
(music) capriccio
composer / songwriter
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tune / song / CL:
HSK 7-9
trilogy
perfect finish (idiom)
lullaby
brewer's yeast
theme song
poem for singing / tune / music / CL:
prelude (music)
popular song / folk tune / ballad
HSK 7-9
rhapsody (music)
tetralogy
overture
waltz
single (recording industry)
composer / song writer
electronic dance music
Qumarlêb County (Tibetan: chu dmar leb rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州|玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai
quadratic curve / conic section (geometry)
lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits / pros and cons
to misrepresent / to misinterpret
cubic curve (geometry)
different tunes played with equal skill (idiom) / different methods leading to the same result / different approach but equally satisfactory outcome
Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
(math.) algebraic curve
line graph / line diagram
varicocele (medicine)
field hockey
march (musical)
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
(geometry) hyperbolic paraboloid
lullaby
(archery) recurve bow
to sing a song
sinuous / devious / full details of a story / to stoop
dance music
the theory of surfaces
(military) curved-trajectory fire / plunging fire
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surname Qu
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bent / crooked / wrong
famous song / well-known piece of music
rondo
twisted / coiled / curled
curved / meandering / zigzagging
music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode
La Marseillaise
conic section
Yuanqu county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi
Quzhou, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市, Hebei
staircase with right-angled turn / L-shaped staircase
curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
HSK 7-9
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
bend (of a river) / meander
(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
(math.) curvature
curved surface / surface
to compose a piece of music
variation (music)
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
quadratic curve (geometry) / conic
the theory of curves
universal bevel (to measure angles)
divertimento (music)
to accept a compromise
serenade
folk musical theater
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
Qujiang, a district of Shaoguan City 韶關市|韶关市, Guangdong
lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom) / fig. to take preventive measures
crankshaft
episode / brief interlude
minuet
curvature vector
music style; music genre
Maqu, a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu
red yeast (so called, although it's actually a mold, not a yeast), a fermentation product created by culturing rice with the mold Monascus purpureus, producing red pigments and bioactive compounds, used in food for its color, as a flavor enhancer, and for its health benefits
Zhouqu, a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu
tune / melody
concerto

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