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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
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
to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
HSK 6
(music) capriccio
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
tune / song / CL:
HSK 7-9
trilogy
lullaby
brewer's yeast
theme song
prelude (music)
popular song / folk tune / ballad
HSK 7-9
rhapsody (music)
tetralogy
overture
waltz
single (recording industry)
electronic dance music
quadratic curve / conic section (geometry)
Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
march (musical)
lullaby
to sing a song
to feel wronged; to feel aggrieved / (in set phrases such as 委曲求全) to yield; to make concessions / (literary) winding; tortuous; indirect / (literary) detailed; elaborate
dance music
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
surname Qu
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
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
Yuanqu county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
bend (of a river) / meander
to compose a piece of music
variation (music)
divertimento (music)
serenade
Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
episode / brief interlude
minuet
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
concerto
nocturne (music)
verse or song form from Yuan, Ming and Qing
to compose (music) / arrangement
creasing / folding
Yangqu county in Taiyuan 太原, Shanxi
suite (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
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
circuitous / tortuous / roundabout
sonata
coiled / entwined / tortuous
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
to curl (hair) / to crimp / to roll up / curly
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *麴* | 麴* | *麴
fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc) / Taiwan pr. [qu2]
to warp / to bend / fig. distorted opinion / prejudice
symphony
to curl
to bend / flexing / deflection
remote village
love song
a bend in a stream
(loanword) fugue
capriccio (music)
hyperbola / hyperbolic (function)
variant of 盤曲|盘曲
toccata
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *麯* | 麯* | *麯
variant of 麴|曲


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