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HSK
crooked
to compose (music)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁
medicated leaven (used in TCM to treat indigestion)
Shanghai opera / same as 滬劇|沪剧
theme song
Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
symphony
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
musical composition
HSK 6
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
trilogy
lullaby
to distort / to misrepresent
HSK 7-9
to twist / to warp / to distort
HSK 7-9
waltz
prelude (music)
rhapsody (music)
tetralogy
overture
concerto
to compose a piece of music
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
quadratic curve / conic section (geometry)
Chinese opera
HSK 6
song
HSK 5
coiled / entwined / tortuous
brewer's yeast
suite (music)
to compose (music) / arrangement
Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
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
(loanword) fugue
to sing a song
sinuous / devious / full details of a story / to stoop
dance music
single (recording industry)
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  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
surname Qu
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bent / crooked / wrong
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
tune / song / CL:
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc) / Taiwan pr. [qu2]
famous song / well-known piece of music
rondo
twisted / coiled / curled
music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode
Yuanqu county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi
curved / meandering / zigzagging
lullaby
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
bend (of a river) / meander
popular song / folk tune / ballad
HSK 7-9
divertimento (music)
serenade
variation (music)
to warp / to bend / fig. distorted opinion / prejudice
electronic dance music
capriccio (music)
episode / brief interlude
minuet
to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
HSK 6
toccata
to curl (hair) / to crimp / to roll up / curly
nocturne (music)
verse or song form from Yuan, Ming and Qing
creasing / folding
remote village
sonata
circuitous / tortuous / roundabout
Yangqu county in Taiyuan 太原, Shanxi
to curl
march (musical)
love song
a bend in a stream
to bend / flexing / deflection
hyperbola / hyperbolic (function)
(music) capriccio
La Marseillaise
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
variant of 麴|曲
variant of 盤曲|盘曲


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