屈
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bent; to feel wronged
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 尸 +5
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 屈
- Common rank
- #1,545
- Unicode
- U+5C48
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 屈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宁死不屈 | rather die than submit (idiom) | |
| 屈指可数 | (lit.) can be counted on one's fingers (idiom); (fig.) very few | |
| 屈公病 | chikungunya fever (Tw) | |
| 威武不屈 | not to submit to force | |
| 首屈一指 | to count as number one (idiom); second to none; outstanding | |
| 屈打成招 | to obtain confessions under torture | |
| 屈光度 | diopter | |
| 白屈菜 | greater celandine | |
| 屈指一算 | to count on one's fingers | |
| 屈头蛋 | see 鴨仔蛋|鸭仔蛋[ya1 zi3 dan4] | |
| 理屈词穷 | lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom); fig. unab… | |
| 屈折语 | to inflect (in grammar); to decline; to conjugate | |
| 不屈 | unyielding; unbending | |
| 屈体 | to bend at the waist; (fig.) to bow to; (diving) pike position | |
| 坚强不屈 | staunch and unyielding (idiom); steadfast | |
| 屈原纪念馆 | Qu Yuan Memorial Hall in Zigui county 秭歸縣|秭归县[Zi3 gui1 Xian4], Hubei, built in 1982 and a … | |
| 大丈夫能屈能伸 | A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.; ready to give and take; flexible | |
| 屈原 | Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Partin… | |
| 屈伦博赫 | Culemborg, city in the Netherlands | |
| 屈指 | to count on one's fingers |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 出 — compare how they read.