Kanji: 曲

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JLPT Level:	JLPT N3 (lower intermediate level)
Kanken Level:	Kanken Level 8 (completion of 3rd grade)
Grade:	Taught during the 3rd grade in Japan
Radical:	曰 Radical name: ひらび
Meaning:	Bend, music, melody, composition, pleasure, injustice, fault, curve, crooked, perverse, lean
Usage:	Appears regularly in Japanese newspapers, but about 800 kanji are used more often.

JLPT Level	Word	Meaning
N5	曲(まが)る	to turn, to bend
N3	作曲(さっきょく)	composition, setting (of music)
N2	曲線(きょくせん)	curve
N2	曲(ま)げる	to bend, to crook, to lean
N1	婉曲(えんきょく)	euphemistic, circumlocution, roundabout, indirect, insinuating
N1	曲(きょく)	tune, piece of music
N1	戯曲(ぎきょく)	play, drama
N1	曲(ま)がる	to turn, to bend