qū
bend
Phonosemantic compound. 尸 represents the meaning and 出 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 屈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to feel wronged | ||
to surrender | ||
bent | ||
unyielding | ||
to humiliate |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Nə-[kʰ]ut | khjut | qū | bent |
*[kʰ]ut | khjut | qū | bend, subdue |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.7778% of movies
2108th most common character in movies
1684th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5C48 |
Shuowen | “屈,無尾也。从尾,出聲。” |
Sources
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